World Family Policy Center News
4/15/02

Volume 1, Issue 3

The following excerpts are highlights of current events and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Family Policy Center or Brigham Young University.

 

FROM THE WORLD FAMILY POLICY CENTER

 

"THE CHILD AND THE FAMILY": Special Session of the World Congress of Families, NYC

The Howard Center for Family Religion and Society, The World Family Policy Center, and United Families International are pleased to announce the convening of a Special Session of the World Congress of Families in New York City.  This meeting is being held in conjunction with the United Nations World Summit on Children. It will be a high level, informative event directed towards world policy makers including Heads of State, Ambassadors to the United Nations and their spouses. 

Speakers for the meeting include: Dr. Wade Horn, Mrs. Janet Museveni (First Lady of Uganda),
Patrick Fagan, Ph. D., Maggie Gallagher, Father Frank Gelli, Allan Carlson, Ph.D., Richard Wilkins, Jeremy Rabkin, and Sophia Aguirre, Ph.D.

For more information on the World Congress of Families New York or to register, go to the United Families International website at www.unitedfamilies.org .

 

 

IN THE NEWS


MAKING TIME FOR BABY (click to read the full article) 
by Nancy Gibbs, Time Magazine


For years, women have been told that they could wait until 40 or later to have babies.  But a new book argues that's way too late. The biological odds are against a woman over 35 bearing children. That reality is reopening the debate over kids and careers

 

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FAMILY FINANCE (click to read the full article)

by James Poniewozik

 

"Babies cost you dearly, no doubt about it. And earlier in life is when you have the least, literally, to spend. But, as Jane Collyer notes, young mothers have more of one important asset in the bank: life itself. 'You know what the best part is?" she asks. "I really hope I'll get to see my great-grandchildren. I don't want not to be able to lift [my grandchildren] up because I'm going to throw out my back. I know I'm thinking way far ahead, but I love my kids so much, and I know they're going to have great kids.'" (Time; April 15, 2002)

 

THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE (click to read the full article)

"Assisted reproductive technology is one of the great medical success stories of the late 20th century. Thanks to fertility drugs, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and a growing list of even more sophisticated techniques, tens of thousands of healthy babies are born each year that otherwise might never have been conceived. But the process is neither foolproof nor risk free. There are limits to what science can do for infertile couples, and the more doctors have to intervene with drugs, needles and surgery to get sperm to meet egg, the greater the chance that something will go wrong." (Time; April 15, 2002)

 

WOMEN WARNED OF INFERTILITY TRAP (click to read the full article)

Women who postpone having babies to focus on their careers are running the risk of remaining childless, a survey has found.  (CNN, April 11, 2002) 

 

AT THE UN

NIGERIA: UNIFEM SPONSERS TV SERIES AIMED AT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
(click to read the full article)

The U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is sponsoring a five-episode television series in Nigeria to raise public awareness on domestic violence against women. The series is to be broadcast on four stations nationwide and will cover issues such as physical assault, male child preference, widowhood rites, sexual harassment and incest.

AGING ASSEMBLY CONLUEDES WITH ADOPTION OF OUT COME DOCUMENTS

Following negotiations that lasted until midnight last night, the Second World Assembly on Aging successfully concluded today as scheduled, with the approval of the final English versions of the conference's two expected outcome documents, which were compiled in light of the massive demographic changes that are expected to affect the world's population in the next 50 years.


UPCOMING NEW YORK CONFERENCE

 

May 8-10 Special Session on Children

 

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