MISSION STATEMENT

The World Family Policy Center, a cooperative effort among the J. Reuben Clark Law School, the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, and the School of Family Life, all at Brigham Young University, seeks to provide balanced, solidly researched, pro-family education to Member States and institutions within the United Nations System, individually and collectively, in order to protect and preserve the place of the family as the fundamental unit of society. Both traditional law and modern social science demonstrate that a society's health is premised on the vitality and strength of the family, which provides both its core and its future.

Our mission is:

	To educate and advocate for strengthening the family in every society;
	To provide a point of exchange for and play an active part in the discussion and evaluation of emerging UN agreements concerning the family and factors that affect it, such as moral, religious, and related value-based issues;
	To provide non-governmental organizations (and private individuals) throughout the world with access to family-supportive materials relevant to current UN initiatives relating to the social issues they face;
	To apply family-supportive social science and legal research to formulations of social policy;
	To facilitate the full and open discussion of proposals for new legal and social norms before various UN bodies and agencies.