(wcf4) "May It Be So"
(wcf3) "Why Are We Here?"
(wcf2) "The Natural Family is the Fundamental Social Unit: A Summons to Create Social Engineering"
(wcf1) "Toward the Virtuous Economy"

Born 1949 in Des Moines, Iowa, Carlson received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Augustana College (1971) and his Ph.D. in Modern European History from The Ohio University (1978).  He is married and has four children.
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(wcf3) "Thoughts About A Pro-Family Think Tank"

Dr. John A. Howard has focused his research and writing on education’s role in preparing new generations to live responsibly in a free society and how that role has been compromised by an amoral educational philosophy and by Federal funding.

John Howard was the founder of The Rockford College Institute, and served for ten years as its president. He has also served as president of the Ingersoll Foundation. [Click here for complete BIO]

(wcf3) "Effective Measures Against Poverty" [PowerPoint file requires MS ie 4.0 or above]
(wcf2) "Family, Economics, and the Information Society: How Are They Affecting Each Other? "

Dr. Aguirre is an associate professor in the Department of Economics and Business, the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. A native of Argentina, her studies have focused on economic development with regard to population, families and women, as well as international finance.

(wcf2) "The Importance of the Family  to the Protection of the Child"

Nils Ammitzboell studied in his native Denmark and in Switzerland, and holds his doctorate in Educational Science. He has lectured throughout Europe on issues of family life and child psychology. Barbara Hug Ammitzboell comes from Germany and holds her doctorate in psychology. A lecturer and journalist, she serves on the congress secretariat for Courage to Take a Moral Stance.

(wcf2) "Family Policies That Work"
(wcf1) "Rebuilding a Culture of Marriage"

The Honorable Kevin Andrews, barrister and statesman, is a member of the Australian Parliament and Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. As a barrister he specialized in health law and bio-ethics, and as a Member of Parliament he has focused on family policy and life-related issues.

(wcf2) "A Lifelong Covenant of Marriage"
(wcf1) "Rebuilding a Culture of Marriage"

Margaret Andrews is convener of the Marriage Education Proramme in Melbourne, Australia. Since 1988, she has edited Threshold, the marriage education journal for Australia and New Zealand. With her husband, Kevin, she founded, in 1998, the new journal, Marriage, Family and Social Issues. She is the mother of five children.

(wcf2) "More Voices for the Family… "

Anatoli Antonov, poet and sociologist, also teaches sociology of the family at the Moscow State Lomonosov University where he received his doctorate degree. He has devoted his professional life to the study of fertility, family size, and reproductive behavior. His most recent book is Microsociology of the Family, published in 1998.

(wcf4) "Advancing Freedom With Christian Scholarship”

(wcf4) "Video Report with Key Participants"
(wcf3) "The Media's Responsibility Towards The Family and Society"
(wcf2) "Protecting Children From Harm From The Media"

Producer, writer, director, radio personality, and scholar, serves as publisher of MovieGuide based on biblical values. He has eighteen years of research in evaluating the impact of the media on both children and adults. He holds degrees in law and theology. His books include: The Media-Wise Family and Hollywood’s Reel of Fortune: A Winning Strategy to Redeem the Entertainment Industry.

(wcf2) "The Power of the Home Economy"

Kathleen Bahr completed her degree in family ecology at Michigan State University in 1981. Her research interests include a life-long study of the importance of family work and exploring the family cultures of everyday living, such as grand parenting, family ritual, love, and family transcendence. Professor Bahr is a member of the faculty in Marriage, Family, and Human Development at Brigham Young University. She and her husband, Howard, have two sons.

(wcf2) "Hijacking Human Rights"

Kathryn Balmforth is Director of NGO Family Voice: The World Family Policy Center at Brigham Young University. Born in Los Angeles, California, she holds a law degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School. A former partner at Wood Crapo LLC, in Salt Lake City, Utah, she has extensive experience in civil rights law. Kathryn Balmforth and her husband, David, are the parents of six children. 

(wcf2) "The Role of the Family in Christianity"

Jean-Marc Berthoud is the author of many books and articles in the fields of history, theology, philosophy, pedagogy, ethics and political thought. His most recent book, Calvin et la France (1999), is a historical study on John Calvin. He and his wife, Rose-Marie, have five children and reside in Lausanne, Switzerland.

(wcf2) "A Preferential Option for the Family"

David Blankenhorn is president of the Institute for American Values in New York City. He is author of the highly praised volume, Fatherless America, and founding chairman of the National Fatherhood Initiative. The editor of four books, he has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post and many other publications.

Contact:  David Blankenhorn,  President Institute for American Values 1841 Broadway, Suite 211 New York, New York 10023  Phone: 212 246-3942  FAX: 212 541-6665  Email: blankenhorniav@worldnet.att.net

(wcf2) "Abortion Breast Cancer Issue"

Professor Joel Brind Ph.D., is a professor of human biology and endocrinology at Baruch College, The City University of New York. Dr. Brind has pioneered the research connecting breast cancer and abortion as well as writing extensively on the subject of human cloning and embryo research.

(wcf2) "Globalization and the Family"

Professor of Theology at the Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Caroline and editor of The Religion & Society Report, published by The Howard Center. He also teaches the summer program of the Simon Greenleaf School of Law in Strasbourg, France. His most recent book is The Sensate Culture: Western Civilization Between Chaos and Transformation 

(wcf4) "Attack On Traditional Marriage "

(wcf3) "The Family A Source of Untold Wealth"

Mr. Cardon grew up in what could be called a traditional family, blessed by the presence and commitment of a mother and father. His father died when he was 20-years-old. He has been married to his wife Debbie for 34 years. They have eight children, four girls and four boys. Six of their children are married. They have 19 grandchildren. He is a businessman. A few years ago he began devoting much of his time to certain societal matters of interest, principally the family. During this time, with a desire to better prepare himself to engage these societal issues, he enrolled at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and there received a master's degree in public administration with a methodological area of concentration in leadership.

(wcf3) "Feminism and the Family"
(wcf2) "Strengthening American Families: What Works and What Doesn’t Work
(wcf4) "A Child’s Best Hope for Life, Health, and Family"

Senior Fellow, The Beverly LaHaye Institute: Concerned Women for America- Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse is a former Bush Presidential Speechwriter and has served as an official United States delegate to United Nations’ conferences on both women and children.  Dr. Crouse is an author, writer and speaker and is an international authority and commentator on political, feminist, family, social, religious, and women's issues.  These remarks can be quoted with appropriate attribution and further information can be found at the CWA/BLI website: www.cwfa.org where you can sign up to receive regular email publications and alerts on contemporary issues.

(wcf2) "Faithful Fathering: How Religion Fosters Responsible and Meaningful Father Involvement"

An Associate Professor in the School of Family Life and an Adjunct Professor of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Dr. Dollahite has published dozens of articles and book chapters; edited three books, and helped develop two web sites on fathering (Fatherwork & Faithful-Fathering). He served as co-chair of the Men in Families Focus Group in the National Council on Family Relations. David and his wife Mary are the parents of six children.

(wcf2) "World Population in the 21st Century: Last One Out Turn off the Lights?"

Nicholas Eberstadt is a researcher with the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His books include The Population of North Korea (1992 , with Judith Banister) and Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems (1999). He holds his Ph.D. from Harvard University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.

(wcf2) "What's at Stake in the Family Debate? Family Autonomy and the Civil Good"

Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. Her books include Real Politics, Political Theory and Everyday Life, Democracy on Trial, Women and War, and Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Political and Social Thought.

(wcf4) "Dignity of the Child from Conception and Its Right to Life, Home, and Family"
(wcf2) "The Effects of Divorce on Children"

Born in Ireland, Patrick Fagan served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Social Service Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and  served as Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation for thirteen years.  He is now Senior Fellow at the Family Research Council (Washington, DC) and Director of the Center for Family and Religion, where he examines the relationships among family, marriage, religion, community, and America's social problems as illustrated in the social sciences research data.  He and his wife Theresa have eight children.

(wcf2) "Parental Rights"
(wcf1) "Reclaiming the Large Family Ideal"

An attorney, is the president and founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association, a membership organization that provides legal and educational counsel to home-schooling families. He has tried cases before the United States Supreme Court and authored a number of books and articles on home schooling and the law, child rearing, and the family. He is an ordained minister in the Baptist Church. He and his wife, Vickie, have ten children, all of whom are schooled at home.

(wcf3) "Drug Legalization in the New Millennium and its Impact on Communities"

Calvina L. Fay is a world-renowned expert on drug policy and prevention strategies with close to 20 years experience in the field. She has authored several books, articles, and newsletters and has founded, built and sold 2 successful businesses. She can be reached at cfay@dfaf.org for comments or questions.

(wcf4) "The Family in the Media's Myopic Eye"
(wcf3) "The Family in the Media's Myopic Eye"

A Boston Herald editorial writer and syndicated columnist from June 1983 to June 2002. He is admitted to the practice of law in New York and Massachusetts. Besides practicing law and writing a syndicated column, Feder served as executive director of Citizens for Limited Taxation, executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation and editorial director of WEEI Newsradio in Boston.

He has a media consulting firm, Don Feder Associates and a website, donfeder.com. In late March, Feder began a daily radio show on WROL, 950 AM in Boston. In September, his third book, "The Tattered Flag: The Fight for America in the 21st Century," is due out from Smith and Kraus Publishers.

(wcf1) "The Natural Family"

Thomas Fleming, classicist, poet, and philosopher, is the editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, published by the Rockford Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in classics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is the author of The Politics of Human Nature. His thought, like that of Aristotle and Aquinas, is focused on human relationships rooted in the natural realities of life—faith, blood, land—rather than in abstractions such as liberty, equality, fraternity.

(wcf2) "Gender as a Natural Construct"

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is the Eleanor Raoul Professor of Humanities at Emory University, where she earlier served as Director of Women’s Studies. Her books include Feminism is Not the Story of My Life (1996) and Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism (1991).

(wcf4) "The Deconstruction of Gender"
(wcf3) "The Plight of Boys"
(wcf2) "Fathers and Mothers... Complementary Roles"

Journalist, activist, and the National and Coordinator of the Endeavor Forum, Inc., a pro-family, pro-life lobby based in Australia. She has a lengthy record of fighting for the traditional family in her country and at the United Nations Conferences in Copenhagen, Nairobi, Cairo, Beijing, and Rome. She and her husband, Charles, have eight children.

(wcf2) "The Communist Assault or the Family: A Czech Perspective"
(Wcf1) "Family"

Michaela Freiova, activist and writer, is the director of the Family and Society program for the Civic Institute of the Czech Republic. She held a variety of underground posts during the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia as author, editor, translator and distributor, waging the war on behalf of the Church, the unborn and the family. She and her husband have three children.

(wcf2) "Democracy Against The Family"

William Gairdner, author, teacher, Olympic decathlon medalist and businessman, is the chairman of The Gairdner Foundation of Canada, which gives international awards to scientists who contribute to the relief of human suffering. Dr. Gairdner is also the founder and first president of Civitas, a national organization focused on the problems of freedom and order in society. His books include War Against the Family.

(wcf2) "The Adoption Option"

Jean Garton, Litt.D., author and lecturer, is a co-founder and former president of Lutherans for Life and is a member of the board of directors of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. She is the author of Who Broke the Baby? and has written and lectured widely on issues related to education, the family and human life. She and her husband have four children. 

(wcf3) "The Decision to Love"
(wcf2) "Family: A Spiritual Guide"

Rabbi Michael Gold serves Temple Beth-Torah and the Tamarac Jewish Center in Tamarac, Florida. He is the author of And Hannah Wept: Infertility, Adoption, and the Jewish Couple, Does God Belong in the Bedroom?, and God, Love, Sex and Family: A Rabbi’s Guide to Building Relationships That Last.

(wcf2) "Telling kids “It’s OK to play around with sex— if they use a condom” is medical misinformation"

Dr. Glen C. Griffin is President of The America Family League, a non-profit foundation dedicated to strengthening families. He teaches in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University and is editor of the new journal, Marriage and Families.

(wcf4) "Lovers Do Not Live for Themselves Alone: The Social Value of Traditional Marriage"

(wcf2) "Motherhood and The Moral Influence of Women"

Bruce Hafen, attorney, is a member of the First Quorum of Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and is currently posted in Europe. He has served as Provost, and as Dean of the Law School at Brigham Young University. He specializes in constitutional law, family law, and education law. He and his wife, Marie, have seven children.

(wcf2) "Family"

George Williford Boyce Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Gambia. Haley, of Silver Spring, Md., is vice chairman of the Postal Rate Commission. An attorney by profession, Haley has practiced law in the District of Columbia and the State of Kansas, where he also served as a deputy city attorney and a state senator. In Washington, D.C., he was president of George W. Haley, P.C., which specialized in transportation, corporate, and international law. In 1986, Haley ran in the Maryland Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. His federal government experience includes service as chairman of the Postal Rate Commission (1990-1993), general counsel and congressional liaison at the United States Information Agency (1976-1977), and chief counsel of the Federal Transit Administration (1969-1973). Haley has served as an appointed member on several international missions, including the U.S. delegation to the 22nd General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, the U.S. delegation to the Second International Conference on Assistance to Refugees in Africa (ICARA) in Geneva, Switzerland, and the U.S. Presidential Delegation to the Fourth African- American Summit in Harare, Zimbabwe. Haley is a 1949 graduate from Morehouse College and a 1952 graduate from the University of Arkansas School of Law. He is also a veteran of WW II.

(wcf2) "Don’t Take Generations Out of Family!"

Director of the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist. His books include Uncovering Shame: Integrating Individuals with Their Family Systems and Birthorder Roles and Sibling Position in Individual and Family Therapy. He holds the highest honorary distinction given by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, that of Fellow. Dr. Harper and his wife, Colleen, have 5 children.

(wcf2) "Combating the Myth that Parents Don’t Matter"

Craig Hart is Professor and Chair of Marriage, Family, and Human Development at Brigham Young University. He has authored or co-authored over 40 scientific papers on parenting and various aspects of children’s development and has edited two volumes on related questions. His current research focuses on patterns of parental influence in Australia, China, Russia and the United States

(wcf3) "Diagnosing the Impending European Population Implosion"
(wcf2) "The Effect of Economics on the U.S. Family "
(wcf1) "The Economic Assault of the Welfare State on the Traditional Family"

David A. Hartman, economist and banker, is the founder and chairman of the Lone Star Foundation and chairman of the Institute for Budget and Tax Limitations. He serves as Vice-Chairman of the Howard Center and Chairman of The Rockford Institute. Mr. Hartman has had successful dual careers both as a business entrepreneur and as an economic public policy analyst. He has researched and written extensively on the effects of state-welfare programs on the family.

(wcf2) "In the Name of God,  the Compassionate, the Merciful"

Fatemeh Hashemi is Secretary General of the Women’s Solidarity Association of Iran. She has served her government as Chief of the Women’s Office of Social and International Affairs in the Foreign Ministry. In 1996, she became Secretary General of the International Union of Muslim Women NGOS.

(wcf4) "Response to Demographic Winter: Sanctity of Family in different Cultures"
(wcf3) "International Criminal Court: Family Related Issues"

D.Phil.; B A Juris, MA. M.Litt, (Oxon), DCL (Columbia), DIA (Harvard), Of Lincoln’s Inn, Barrister at Law, UK, Attorney at Law, US, Senior Advocate Supreme Court (QC) of Pakistan; David M. Kennedy Visiting Scholar, Kennedy Center  & Visiting Professor of International Studies & Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. The author has been Advisor to four Pakistani Prime Ministers on Foreign Affairs & Law, Member & Delegate to the UN Human Rights Commission, and the UN Sub Commission on Human Rights, Geneva. He has also represented Pakistan delegations to the UN GA and was the leader of  Pakistan  Delegation to the  International Criminal Court (ICC); He is currently the UN Special Ambassador for Family, the President of the American Institute of South Asian Strategic Studies, Boston; President Pakistan Ecology Council and Chairman   Pakistan Bar‘s Committees on International Affairs and Environment, 2004-2005; he was awarded the highly prestigious King Faisal Memorial Award for 2002 from K.Fiasl Foundation, Saudi Arabia and in 2003 he received the International Professor of the Year of Human Rights & Shraiah Award in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; In 2004 he became the first Pakistani scholar to be appointed a distinguished Visiting Professor by JNU in Delhi, & to give Memorial Lectures at the Benaras Hindu University, University of Mumbai and at Ambadkar University in Auranagbad. In 2006 he was given the London World International Islamic Award for Family. In 2006 he also received the distinction of being invited to address the Goa International Center for his work in human rights & peace studies in South Asia., the Gandhi Peace Foundation, and Delhi and by the Nehru Foundation in Bombay.

(wcf4) "The New Drug of the Millenium"

She is a founding member of Family & Society, and a member of the board of "Red Familia" (Family Network), Mexico. She has participated in the Planning Committee of the World Congress of Families.

Marie-Claire has been a conference speaker on education and sexuality for the past 15 years. Recently, she has been involved in an online safety project in Mexico, where she has spoken nationally on the subject of addiction among children and teenagers to online pornography.

(wcf2) "Nurturing Children's Higher Needs Through the Family"

Edward Hoffman, a psychiatrist, is in private practice in New York. He is the author of nine books including Beyond All Odds: The Story of Lubavitch, The Book of Fathers’ Wisdom, and The Drive for Self, which won a Gradiva award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

(wcf4) "Diminishing Interest in Motherhood and Human Ecology"
(wcf3) "Development of Prosocial Behavior and Empathy In the Hand that Rocks the Cradle"
(wcf2) "Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings on the Role of the Biological Mother"

Director of the Jefferson Longitudinal Study and research professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University. He has published over 100 articles in scientific and professional journals, and has edited two major volumes, commonly focused on the topic of mother-child attachment.

(wcf3) "Strengthening Young Adults’ Marriages Begins in the Home"

National Council on Family Relations;  International Network for Personal Relationships;  International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships;  Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists Applied Activities;  Frequent speaker at church, national and international groups on mate selection, marital quality, strong families, and surviving the teen years. Dr. Holman's scholarly interests include understanding the courtship and mate selection process, understanding the predictors of marital quality, and advancing premarital, marital, and family life education.

(wcf3) "My Family Story"
(wcf2) "The Family, Civil Society, and the State"

A clinical psychologist, is past President of The National Fatherhood Initiative, a Washington based advocacy organization to promote fatherhood. In 1989-1993, he served as Commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, as Chief of the Children's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and as a member of the National Commission on Children. 

(wcf2) "Family Policies that Work"

Syed Shahid Husain has been senior advisor to the Permanent Observer Mission of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the United Nations in New York, since 1995. He has given special attention to issues of family policy and economic development.

(wcf2) "Binding the Generations"

David Isaacs is Professor of School Management, the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, at the University of Navarre, in Spain. His books include Children and Adolescents, Character Building, and The Dynamics of Communication in Marriage. He is the father of seven children and the grandfather of six.

(wcf2) "Deconstructing the Family: Tampering with 'the Deep Natural Facts of Begetting'"

Rita Joseph, writer and lecturer, has represented the Australian Family Association at six recent United Nations Conferences. She has contributed to books including The New Imperialism, Empowering Women: Beijing Essays, and The Family, Education, and Society. She is the mother of eleven children and a home-schooler.

(wcf2) "The Family - Economy  and Insurance for the Future"

Bruno de Kalbermatten received his diploma in mechanical engineering in 1949 at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and later became President of BOBST, S.A., headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. His board memberships included Nestle S.A., The Union Bank of Switzerland, and the Swiss Association of Machine Manufacturers.

(wcf4) "The Siren Song: How the Left Wields Pornography Against Family and Church"

Robert Knight heads the Culture and Media Institute at the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Virginia. Knight frequently appears on network and cable television and radio programs, and is published and quoted in major newspapers and magazines. Of special interest are media influence, religious freedom, family issues, television and film.

(wcf4) "Marriage As A Social Good: Why Get Married?"
(wcf3) "Keeping Family in the UN’s Agenda"
(wcf2) "The Family at the United Nations:  Where Do We Go From Here?"

Attorney and veteran activist at the United Nations conference in Cairo, Beijing, and Istanbul. She is a President of REAL Women of Canada and a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines in issues affecting marriage, family, women, and children. 

(wcf2) "Child Abuse"

Paul A. Logli has served as the State's Attorney for Winnebago County in Illinois since 1986. He is a member of the faculty at Northwestern University Traffic Institute ad faculty of the National College of District Attorneys. Mr. Logli is an Eagle Scout and continues to be active in Boy Scouts of America. He is the father of three children.

(wcf4) "Two Competing Moralities: The Importance of the Choice Between Them"

Executive Director, World Family Policy Center, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University. Responsibilities include operations of the center, coordinating work assignments and outreach efforts such as the center's annual World Family Policy Forum, and facilitating the participation and involvement of the center in assisting in the development of family policy at the United Nations and with many individual national governments.

(wcf2) "Challenges to Children's Well Being: Fathers and Parental Time"

Colonel Robert Maginnis was a member of the U.S. Army’s Study Group examining the military ban on homosexuality. In 1993, he joined the Family Research Council, where he is now Senior Director, National Security and Foreign Affairs, and Director of the Military Readiness Project. His current research interests include the influence of illegal drug use on the family.

(wcf3) "Pornography: Breaking the International Network"

Directs the Obscenity Treaty Project of the National Obscenity Law Center, a division of Morality in Media one of the oldest and widely-respected organizations in America devoted to fighting criminal pornography (moralityinmedia.org).

He has taught international relations, religion, and politics at Boston University, the University of Dallas (Texas), and Christendom College in Virginia. During the 1980s, he worked for the Senate foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, where he served for six years as staff director for the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs. He is a trustee of the Population Research Institute and a founding trustee of the American Foreign Policy Council (Washington) and Universidad Francisco Marroquin (Guatemala). He resides with his family in Front Royal, Virginia.

(wcf2) "The One-House Schoolroom The Extraordinary Influence of Family Life on Student Learning"
(wcf1) "Rebuilding a Marriage Culture"

Bill Mattox serves on the Board of Contributors for USA TODAY. Columns written by Mattox for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and USA TODAY have been award winners in the Amy Foundation’s annual writing contest. A former vice president at the Family Research Council, Mattox writes frequently about new research findings and cultural trends. He and his wife, Jill, have four children.

(wcf2) "Protecting Children by Respecting Parents"

Dallas Miller, attorney and Queen’s Counsel, has argued cases before the Canadian Supreme Court. He is Senior Counsel and Executive Director of the Home School Legal Defense Association of Canada, and an authority on issues of “children’s” and “parents’” rights.

(wcf4) "Marriage On the Ballot: How People of faith are preserving the definition of marriage in the United States"

W. Bradford Wilcox is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University. Wilcox, who is also the lead author of Why Marriage Matters, has published on marriage, fatherhood, and parenting in academic journals such as the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and the Journal of Marriage and Family. Professor Wilcox holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University. Portions of this essay are adapted from W. Bradford Wilcox and Robin Wilson, 2006. “Bringing Up Baby: Adoption, Marriage, and the Best Interests of the Child.” Bill of Rights Journal 14: 883-908.

(wcf2) "History, Research and Common Sense for Great Families and Schools"

Raymond S. Moore, Ph.D. is the author of numerous books on children, education, and cultural questions. He was chairman of the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth, a U.S. Delegate to UNESCO, and a co-founder of the Family Research Council.

(wcf2) "Modernity, Globalization and Progress"

Maria Morfaw is the Director of the Village Women’s Organization in The Cameroons, and a lecturer in philosophy at the Cameroon College of Arts, Science and Technology. She led the N.G.O. delegation from the Cameroons to the 1995 Beijing Conference and has served as a Consultant for the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organization.

(wcf2) "Beyond the Myth of Children's Rights"
(wcf1) "Family Dissolution and the Concept of Children’s Rights: Historical and Culture-Comparative Analysis"

Akira Morita is Professor of Law at Toyo University in Japan. He is the author of The Convention on the Rights of the Child—It’s Contents, Theme, and Perspective, as well as hundreds of articles on juvenile and constitutional law. For 15 years, he has also served as a volunteer probation officer for juveniles in the Tokyo area. He is the father of three children.

(wcf2) "The Family and Education"

Robert Morrison is Senior Policy Advisor for the Family Research Council. A frequent lecturer and author, he also served as a special assistant for the U.S. Department of Education and as Washington Representative for the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod.

(wcf2) "A Preferential Option for the Family"

Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, his most recent book is The Charter Revolution and the Court Party. His 1992 book, Morgentalre v. Borowski: Abortion, the Charter and the Courts, won the Alberta Writer’s Guild Award for best non-fiction book of the year. He is also President of the Research Committee on Comparative Judicial Studies of the International Political Science Association. In 1998, He was elected one of Alberta’s two Senators-elect on the Reform Party ticket.

(wcf4) "Policies to Encourage Large Families"
(wcf3) "Unto the Least of These My Brethren: U.S. Population Control Policy"

Steven W. Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute located in Front Royal, Virginia, and is the author of the forthcoming Population Control: Real Costs and Illusory Benefits (Transaction Press, September, 2007)

Mosher's "writings demonstrate that overpopulation is a myth, and that the efforts of population controllers to reduce human numbers have led to massive human rights abuses and undermined the health of women and children.

(wcf4) "A Family-Friendly Fiscal Policy to Weather “Demographic Winter”

John D. Mueller is Director of the Economics and Ethics Program of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He previously served as an EPPC associate scholar. He is also president of LBMC LLC, a firm in Washington, D.C., specializing in economic and financial-market forecasting and economic policy analysis. He has more than 25 years' experience in those fields.

(wcf2) "Children's Internal Family Image and Their Mental Health"

Kayoko Murase, clinical psychologist, is an expert on child and adolescent psychology and family psychology. She is the director of Taisho University Counseling Institute, in Japan, and a professor in the Graduate School of the same University.

(wcf2) "Keeper of the Springs"

Margaret D. Nadauld is the President of the Young Women’s Association of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which has over 560,000 members world wide. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Brigham Young University and has served as president of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Utah Chapter, and as vice president of Utah’s American Mothers, Inc. She is married and the mother of seven sons and the grandmother of five.

(wcf2) "Preventing Child Abuse"

PHILIP G. NEY, M.D. Philip Ney, psychologist and psychiatrist, has written sixteen books and has taught at five universities in four countries. His research has focused on the connection between child abuse and abortion and on the children who have survived abortion. He and his wife, Dr. Marle Peeter-Ney conduct training seminars world-wide through the International Institute for Pregnancy Loss and Child Abuse Research and Recovery. He is also Clinical Professor, Department of Family Practice, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.

(wcf2) "Sex and the Family"

MARGARET OGOLA, M.D. Margaret Ogola, pediatrician, is the Medical Director for the Cottolenga Hospice for HIV-positive orphans and Executive Director of the Family Life Counseling Association of Kenya. She is the author of the novel, The River and the Source, and of the book, Education in Human Love. Dr. Ogola and her husband, George, have four children.

(wcf2) "Principles of Family Policy"

Terrance Olson is professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. He is co-creator of AANCHOR, a citizenship-character curriculum which emphasizes generational relationships and moral responsibility. He has won several teaching awards and served as regional speaker for the Perth, Australia meetings during the 1994 International Year of the Family. He and his wife, Karen, are the parents of six children.

(wcf4) "Messages of Hope: The Phenomenon of Spiritual Renewal and Dynamics of Transformation"

As the eighth president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Paige Patterson brings to the position 28 years of experience in the education of pastors and missionaries. After 17 years as president of The Criswell College, he served for 11 years as president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. The focus of Dr. Patterson's leadership is made up of an intense commitment to evangelism and the global mission task based on a foundational component of demanding research and rigorous academic preparation.

(wcf3) "Human Cloning"  [PowerPoint file requires MS ie 4.0 or above]

David A. Prentice is Professor of Life Sciences at Indiana State University, and Adjunct Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics for Indiana University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Kansas. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Assistant Professor of OB/GYN and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Texas Medical School-Houston before joining Indiana State University. He has served as Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Assistant Chairperson of Life Sciences, and been recognized with the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

(wcf4) "The Integration of Ethical Values into Education"

Marta López-Jurado Puig is a Doctor of Philosophy and Educational Sciences and Family Mediation at the National University of Distance Education in Spain. She is a recognized researcher, lecturer, author, and counselor in family issues.

(wcf2) "Public Policies that Work: How Governments can Help End the Crisis in Family Breakdown"

Darrel Reid is president of Focus on the Family (Canada). Prior to this, he served as Director of Policy and Research for the Reform Party, and as Chief of Staff to Preston Manning, leader of Canada’s official opposition. He holds his Ph.D. in History from Queen’s University.

(wcf4) "Toward a New EU Pro-Family Coalition"
(wcf2) "Toward a Permanent United Nations Pro-Family Bloc"

Austin Ruse is founder and President of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, based in New York. A former businessman and publisher, he now edits C-Fam’s Friday Fax, an international e-mail service in support of family and religious liberty.

(wcf2) "Preservation of Family is Promotion of Peace"

Jehan Sadat of Egypt has founded, headed, and supported numerous charitable organizations and has gained the title, “First Lady of the World.” She holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature from Cairo University. She has encouraged and championed her late husband’s drive for peace, which earned him the Nobel Prize in 1978. She is the mother of four children, and a grandmother, too.

(wcf2) "Preservation of Family is Promotion of Peace"

Mohammad Javad Sahlani teaches at the Sharif Univesity of Technology in Tehran. He holds his doctorate in higher education administration from North Texas State University. His books include Islam and the West and A Review of Islamic Civilization.

(wcf2) "Drugs, Family, and Drug Policy"

JOSEPH SANTAMARIA, M.D. Joseph Santamaria is president of The Australian Family Association. He has authored the book Signs of the Times and has conducted research on the effects of drugs on the family. He received The Order of Australia medal for his work in the field of alcoholism and drug addiction. He has five children and fourteen grandchildren.

(Wcf4) "Promoting Strong Families as a Foreign Policy Goal"
(wcf3) "UN and Family Policy"

Ellen R. Sauerbrey is a Republican National Committeewoman and former Minority Leader of the Maryland House of Delegates. In 1994, Sauerbrey was the Republican nominee for Governor of Maryland, coming within four tenths of one percent of victory. Following the election, she became a radio talk-show host and a TV commentator. Her columns have appeared in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Baltimore Sun, and many other Maryland papers.

(wcf4) "Catholic Social Teaching on Marriage and the Family"
(wcf4) "Biotechnology and Threats to Human Dignity"
(wcf3) "Toward a Culture of Life - Abortion, Biotechnology & Cloning"
(wcf3) "Family, Culture & Globalization"

Mr. Saunders is a graduate of the University of North Carolina (where he was a Morehead Scholar) and of the Harvard Law School. He has been deeply involved in bioethics for several years. He was a signatory of the "Statement on Human Embryos and Stem Cell Research," released on July 1, 1999 by a coalition of concerned ethicists, lawyers, and scientists. He is a member of "Do No Harm: the Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics."

(wcf2) "The Family as the Protector of Children"

Donald Schmierer, businessman and philanthropist, is the founder of His Servants, a ministry among students, business professionals, and church leaders in the United States. He and his wife help operate several Christian programs for addiction recovery. He is the author of An Ounce of Prevention, a book on preventing the homosexual condition in today’s youth.

(wcf3) "Modernity Is Unisex"
(wcf2) "The Home as a Spiritual Center"

Michal Semin is co-founder and president of The Civic Institute of The Czech Republic, which promotes the traditional virtues of a free and ordered society. He is also founder of the Czech Society for Home Education and Chairman of Una Voce—the Society of Catholic Tradition. He is married and the father of three young children.

(wcf4) "We Ignore the Lessons of the Netherlands at Our Own Peril"

Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute , is an attorney and consultant for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture . He is an international lecturer and public speaker, appearing at political, university, medical, legal, bioethics, and community gatherings across the United States, Canada, Europe, South Africa, and Australia.

(wcf2) "Suggestions to Strengthen Families"

Mary Ellen Smoot of Salt Lake City, Utah, is general president of The Relief Society of The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints, the largest women’s organization in the world. She also serves on the Church Board of Education Executive Committee, the Welfare Executive Committee, and the Board of Trustees of Brigham Young University and Ricks College.

(wcf4) "Home-Makers have the Ultimate Career"

Carol Soelberg is a fulltime homemaker (13 children and 26 grandchildren) and president of United Families International, an organization that advocates and educates on family values.

(wcf2) "On The Dignity and Worth of Human Life"

Charles Solis, Jr. has founded many organizations that serve families and children with developmental problems throughout the world, particularly in poor areas, including The Children’s Neuro-Development Center, San Rafael, CA, the International Institute for Holistic Brain Development, Ashland, OR, and Programa Leopoldo, Caracas, Venezuela. Presently, Mr. Solis is the executive director of The REACH Family Institute.

(wcf3) "Homosexuality: The Threat to the Family and the Attack on Marriage"

Peter S. Sprigg was appointed as the first Director of FRC's Center for Marriage and Family Studies in April 2003, having served as Senior Director of Culture Studies for two years. He oversees FRC's efforts to analyze and influence our culture as it relates to: marriage and family structure; education; human sexuality and the homosexual agenda; religion in public life; and the arts and entertainment. He also serves as Executive Editor of the monthly email newsletter Culture Facts.

(wcf2) "The Family and Population Control"
(wcf1) "How Long Shall We Suffer the Lies about the Family?"

Senator Francisco Tatad, statesman, is a member (and past majority leader) of the Philippine Senate. He is known as the most active defender of the Christian family and Christian family life in the Philippine Congress. A former journalist, he has written extensively on family life and population issues. He and his wife, Fenny, have seven children.

(wcf2) "Evaluating the Cairo Conference  and its Attitude Towards the Family Question"

Mohammad Ali Taskhiri of Iran holds degrees in Arabic Literature, Islamic Jurisprudence, and International Relations. He is Head of the Organization of Culture and Islamic Relations and a Director of the Organization of Children’s Rights. His 50 books include Knowing God and Rapproachment of Christianity and Islam. He has addressed recent United Nations conferences in Cairo, Beijing, and Copenhagen. He is married and the father of five children.

(wcf4) "We Are At War!"

Catherine Vierling was born in France, studied medicine in Strasbourg, worked as a general practitioner, received an MA degree in health economy from the Paris Medical School Lariboisiere and an MBA from the prestigious Ecole Superieure de Commerce in Paris. Dr. Vierling served as General Secretary of the World Movement of Mothers (WMM) from 1996-2000. She is an internationally recognized expert on bioethics, human rights and the family, and has worked with the European Union and Council of Europe in these areas. She has participated at every U.N. summit and prepcom since Cairo and attended follow-up summits, including Cairo+5, Beijing+5 and Beijing+10, where she served on the official E.U. delegation. Catherine Vierling was a member of the International Organizing Committee for World Congress of Families IV and spoke in Warsaw.

(wcf4) "Marriage and Family: A Protestant Perspective with a Pentecostal Point of View"
(wcf3) "Family in Different Religions: The Pentecostal Family"

An ordained bishop serving as the Director of Family Ministries for the Church of God (Cleveland, TN).  Among his fourteen titles are Family Ministry Frameworks: A Comprehensive Guide for Building Relational Ministry; Covenant Marriage: Stronger Than Contract, Deeper Than Commitment; When Home Is Where The Hurt Is: A Ministry Intervention Guide for Trauma Victims; and Silent Suffering, Silent Shame: Breaking the Silence of Spouse Abuse.

(wcf4) "Modern Woman and the Challenge of Motherhood"
(wcf3) "Towards a new paradigm: Searching for New Development Actions"
(wcf2) "On Family, the Human Heart, Wholeness and Peace"

Madamme Christine de Vollmer of Venezuela is the President of the Latin American Alliance for the Family. She has organizaed conferences on the family all over Europe and Latin America. She has served with the Holy See Delegation at the United Nations and is a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family. She and husband, Alberto, have seven children. 

(wcf4) "The Attack on Marriage As the Union of a Man and a Woman"

Lynn D. Wardle is a Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University; Provo, Utah, USA; Remarks to The World Congress of Families IV Warsaw, Poland, May 2007

(wcf4) "Why Marriage Matters: Marriage, Lone Parenthood, Cohabitation, and Child Well-being in the West"

W. Bradford Wilcox is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University. Wilcox, who is also the lead author of Why Marriage Matters, has published on marriage, fatherhood, and parenting in academic journals such as the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and the Journal of Marriage and Family. Professor Wilcox holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University. Portions of this essay are adapted from W. Bradford Wilcox and Robin Wilson, 2006. “Bringing Up Baby: Adoption, Marriage, and the Best Interests of the Child.” Bill of Rights Journal 14: 883-908.

(wcf2) "Recognizing Our Shared Commitment to the Natural Family"

Richard Wilkins is a Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School and Managing Director of NGO Family Voice: The World Family Policy Center at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He has written numerous articles on constitutional issues and conducts an annual survey of Supreme Court voting trends published by the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. He is a former Assistant to the Solicitor General, United States Department of Justice. He is married to Melany Moore Wilkins, and is the father of four children

(wcf2) "A Time For Truth: Confronting the UN's Contraceptive Mentality"

Mercedes Arzú Wilson of Guatemala is the founder and President of the Family of the Americas Foundation and founder and Chairman of the Board of the World Organization for the Family. She has authored numerous articles, books and natural family planning programs and has participated at United Nations conferences in Cairo, Copenhagen, Beijing, Istanbul, and Rome. She is a member of the Pontifical Council for Life. She and her husband have three children.