Gender

Mothers Standing For Family At The United Nations CSW 2015

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In 1995 the United Nations had a monumental meeting in Bejing.  Part of this document created 20 years ago was this statement, “The family is the basic unit of society and as such should be strengthened…Women make a great contribution to the welfare of the family and to the development of society which is still not recognized or considered in its full importance. The social significance of maternity, motherhood and the role of parents in the family and in the upbringing of children should be acknowledged. The upbringing of children requires shared responsibilty of parents, women and men and society as a whole.”  

This statement is in harmony with the mural that provides a backdrop for the Security Council Hall at the United Nations in New York.  Right in the center of the painting is an oval with a woman and a man getting married.  They have a child at their feet which seems to symbolize the marriage as the union that creates stable populations. 

2014 was my first year visiting the CSW [Conference on the Status of Women] event at the United Nations.  After my first experience I was not sure the United Nations remembered how important the family was, but this year I have higher hopes. Don’t get me wrong I am not a fan of global micro-managing or anything like that, but I do think that unity on important issues can help strengthen societies and offer support. 

For many activists who come to the United Nations the global platform is used to elevate the idividual as the most important unit of society.  The arguments for supporting the individual are not usually made with future generations in mind.  The real extreme activists want unlimited abortions, fewer children, more government intervention, forced equality (this never works as then the other party, men, become the oppressed), legal pornography and prostitution (pimping) which lead to child trafficking, and government mandated freedoms for personal preferences. 

This year WOW along with many others promoted the language in the 1995 Beijing document.  We promoted the family as the basic unit of society and spoke about ways we could strengthen the family. 

WOWs Events 

WOW hosted three parallel events this year at the CSW conference.  First we had and event called “The Power of Calm: Increasing The Influence Of Women” by me (Nicholeen Peck).  In this class we talked about how important calmness was and about how freeing it can be.  We also talked about how women promote calmness in all their environments but especially in the home.  And, when women create calm homes their children become free and powerful.

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Our second event featured Jacky and Jose Aponte, parents of 12 children.  The Apontes talked about their story of poverty, abuse, and loss of identity.  Then they shared the solution to these problems; the family.  There were tears and laughs and everyone left with some ideas for how they can strengthen their families. The class was called “Family University”. 

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WOW’s third event was presented by the women of WOW Africa.  The class educated people about the problem facing women in parts of Africa, like Nigeria, when a spouse dies.  Women are not allowed to inherit property if their husband dies and are often left without basic necessities of life.  With no money or property and often times no education as well as the customary (socially manditory) one year of grieving the woman and her children are left in terrible hardship.  The women and men of WOW Africa talked about solutions to these problems facing African women and girls.  

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The SDGs 

In 2000 the MDGs (Millenial Development Goals) were made to last fifteen years.  They were the focus for the nations for these past fifteen years, but are now ready to be reviewed and news goals are to be made.  The new goals are called SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). These goals are supposed to represent the most important areas of focus for the world for the upcoming fifteen years.  They are being discussed now at the United Nations. 

WOW feels the family, as the basic unit of society, promotes equality and identity because it provides a history and an identity for a growing child. When mothers and fathers fulfill their roles in the family children learn what their future roles in society can and should be for a sustainable future. Without strong families, societies decline and decay. Strengthening families needs to be the highest priority.

The family is the perfect development goal.

To see a very interesting and informative meeting that WOW participated in about making ‘The Family’ a new SDG go here. 

https://m.webtv.un.org/watch/the-family-as-the-agent-of-gender-equality-a…

Others Are Feeling The Call To Support The Family Too! 

At events, in caucus meetings, and in conversations with people from all over the world I found people who are concerned about the family and want to strengthen it.  There were people speaking out about moral issues and in support of the role of men in our society too.  Sure, those promoting the family at the United Nations are still the minority.  But, the numbers are growing.  People are seeing that the truth about what is most important is just not getting enough press or support.  The most important and basic unit of all society is the family. We cannot forget. 

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15 Year Old Boy Honors Dad As His Hero & Speaks Generationally

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Parenting isn’t just what someone does when a child needs to be corrected for something!  It is so much more.  In fact, parenting is a generational thing that can bring great unity, purpose and happiness, or it can be pain and suffering for the whole family. When one parent changes from influencing the family in painful ways to influencing the family with love and unity generations of people will never be the same! 

Fathers and mothers each play a unique role in the lives of their children. Fathers teach their sons what a man should be like, and mothers teach their daughters what a strong but nurturing woman is.  The parents are the vision the children have of what their adult life either will look like or can look and the feelings that they can expect to feel.  

In this video Weston, a 15 year old boy talks about the vision he has for his life now that he has witnessed his father undergo a miracle transformation called self-government.  Weston and his family also talk about their hope for their future and how life has changed at home.  

Weston’s dad is his hero!  And, as we all know a hero overcomes.  That is what all great heroes do.  

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Find Out How To Transform Your Family Too!  https://teachingselfgovernment.com 

Where Have the Adults Gone? A True, But Unfortunate Story

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Where Have the Adults Gone? An Unfortunate, but True Story

A friend recently told me of her niece’s experience as a fourth grade public school teacher. The name has been changed. Paul is her student. One day mother showed up to the classroom with Paul, and explained that Paul would now be called Paula, and would be referred to with feminine pronouns. The alarmed teacher went straight to the administration, and the wise decision was made not to meet the mother’s request. The mother had the ACLU brought in and Paul is now referred to as Paula with feminine pronouns at the school, and he now uses the girl’s restroom.

Being an advocate for children, a former public California school teacher and someone who has worked with hundreds of children, this story struck hard at my conscience and heart. I asked where are the responsible adults in this child’s life? For Paul and all the future Pauls’ benefit, this story needs to be told and logically sorted through.

Foremost, Paul’s story illustrates the miserable failing of the adults to protect and correct.  Paul’s mother demanded that a lie about her son’s sex be perpetuated by the school, against scientific fact and with legal force, rather than to accept the basic order of nature and to teach and have that order reinforced to her son. The truth is God and nature determine the anatomy of a person, and anatomy is what defines gender. Even if an individual doesn’t believe God, it remains basic scientific fact that if all is in proper working order, a female will have the all the physical parts necessary to bear and nourish children, and a male will produce the seed for life to begin. Truth is often revealed in purpose. It is biologically impossible to change sex. Denying Paul instruction of this first reality is a gross failing of the parent.

This brings into the situation, the failing of many adults in the field of medicine, whose false assumptions have served to undermine the parental role and mental health of children.  Recent laws passed in Massachusetts, California and New Jersey bar psychiatrists from helping minors acquire a perception of gender that aligns with their anatomical reality, even with parental permission. A Vanderbuilt University/Portman Clinic study showed that 70-80% of children with transgender feeling, spontaneously lose those feelings. Will those feelings spontaneously disappear in the child if they are continually reinforced by the adults and institutions in their life?

It also appears classroom instruction could be subject to the censoring of basic observable and proven scientific fact. Is this teacher now banned from instruction on this concept?  This is not about sex- ed, but the concept of reproduction as a matter of reality found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms. This would be an utter failing of our education system if this is the case.

Leaving Paul aside for a moment, let’s look at potential effects on all the other children in Paul’s classroom. They are now victims of legal coercion against their own conscience, along with the teacher. They will feel the adults at this institution forcing a lie upon them. They will witness their teacher become the enforcer of the lie (as coerced by the State against her conscience), while both children and teacher know Paul is a boy. This leaves many important questions to be asked.  Not if, but how will the conscience and personal identity be affected? Will the children still feel the lie in six months or will they eventually accept this alter reality as the norm? Does this teach children to cower to and enable delusion in others? Does this mean they will more readily accept lies from adults in the future? Will this influence some to accept lies about themselves? Children are so impressionable and naturally look to adults for truth, protection and direction. What is this teaching them about adults? What is this teaching the children about law? Is this how trust and confidence is built between adult and child? Teacher and student? Individual and State?  For all the children, this is an utter failing of many adults running our legal system and the direction that anti-discrimination laws lead to for minors, which in the end are not humane at all.

Paul Mchugh, former Psychiatrist in Chief at John Hopkins hospital could be the adult hero for these children. In a Wall Street article, Transgender Surgery Isn’t the Solution, he summarizes the true nature of this clinical condition-it is a clinical condition in the same category as anorexia and bulimia. His is a scientific voice we can raise as responsible adults advocating for children.  The link to his article is:

          https://online.wsj.com/articles/paul-mchugh-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solution-1402615120

Official Statement About US Supreme Court Decision 10-6-14

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This morning, October 6, 2014, the Supreme Court denied appeals from Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Indiana and Wisconsin for a State’s right to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman. This decision saddens The Worldwide Organization For Women.

As an organization that specializes in helping women and families, WOW views this decision as degrading to the  dual roles of women in society as mothers, and men as fathers.  Women and men should not be thought of as interchangeable equivalents, but should be honored as powerful co-creators  with God of children.  Both men and women have self-evident and powerful roles to create moral societies, through raising and nurturing virtuous families.  This ruling  suggests that the purpose of marriage is to legalize various sexual preferences of certain groups in our society.  We do not agree with this premis. To legally re-define marriage is short-sighted and demoralizing to women, men, and society. 

WOW urges families in the states of Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin and around the world to value woman as the powerful influence  in society that she has historically been.  More than ever women need to honor their roles as women, mothers, and grandmothers.  Teach your children why mothers and fathers are important.  Give your children the peace they desperately need, which comes from the full identity of their mother and father’s lineage and love.   

Strong Words About A Child’s Right To Parents

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Dr. Jennifer Roback, president of the Ruth Institute, gave this stirring five minute addresss to the RI House Judiciary when they were ruling on the same sex marriage issue.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifUSSt–gLg&ytsession=u3a_-kBeymNM4QZIrG…

She makes a point of saying that we can’t see ahead of time to what the problems of legalizing same sex marriage will be for our children, but there will be bad effects.  Who will fix the families then?  Great thought provoking material here. 

Irreplaceable Mothers: The Power of Moms Who Know Their Roles

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On May 6th, 2014 I went to a viewing of the new documentary, Irreplaceable, produced by Focus On The Family. This documentary took on some of the big issues facing the world in our times such as abortion, population decline, the importance of mothers and fathers in families, and general social confusion related to misunderstanding the…

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Maternity

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Maternity by design is wholesome and good, and is divinely intended to benefit the mother in countless ways and at so many different levels: emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, behaviorally, biologically, etc.

All good things get challenged, so it comes as no surprise that contradictory and counterfeit ideas against maternity are promoted even institutionalized, which are not wholesome, not good, and not divinely intended, which end up harmful to women. A few days before Mother’s Day, a perfectly timed debut, Cosmopolitan published 25 year old abortion doula, Emily Lett’s essay, “Why I Filmed My Abortion.” The story has spread quickly throughout the media. Emily posted on YouTube a video of her alleged abortion. There is no verifying that what is taking place in the video is real, that part is assumed. In her essay, she says she was introduced by her administrator to Angie AntiTheist, obviously an alias, another YouTube poster who wanted to show the world how positive taking RU486 is. This became Emily’s inspiration for her clinical abortion video.

The idea of promoting abortion as positive has been the strategy of pro-abortionists for a while now. This is good news in the sense that at large, abortion is no longer accepted in society as a good choice, nor as something positive. Those who promote the dignity and rights of each individual from conception have made great headway, so much so that the pro-abortion lobby NARAL has felt threatened enough to pressure Google into blocking pro-life ads on all searches tagged “abortion clinic”-and we all thought our searches were objective. They argued that abortion industry revenues were being negatively affected by the pro-life ads.

Despite their well- funded lobby, research continues to reveal truth of the “not good” and “harmful” when it comes to abortion such as in a recent Chinese meta-analysis that links induced abortion and breast cancer.

On the flip side, one little known benefit of maternity is no breast cancer. It was known as early as mediaeval times that breast cancer was a disease resulting from not experiencing maternity; it existed primarily in nuns, and found rarely in the aged. Only in recent years has breast cancer become a disease in women of child bearing age. Research is catching up to what we already knew, maternity is the healthy, good and beneficial choice for women. WOW will be exploring and sharing research in a continuing series of articles addressing maternity and the biological effects of its expression and suppression.

Saving Mother’s Day

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by Nicholeen Peck  Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you have planned how you will spend your special day. I usually try to find ways to serve my family like a good mother does.  Years ago I fell into the trap of feeling entitled on Mother’s Day.  I thought it was my day off.  In fact, it seemed like society was convincing me that I should feel entitled to special treatment.  One Mother’s Day, after being thrown up on and having everything go wrong, and feeling like being a mother was the worst thing ever, I decided that never again would I trick myself into that kind of selfishness.  I decided that Mother’s Day was my day to do what I do; mother people.  I decided that to honor my special day best I needed to be selfless, not selfish.  Here are some things you can do to make Mother’s Day special for you and for your family; live your role and love it!

  • Make your family breakfast in bed
  • Make a special dinner for your family
  • Tell stories from your life to your family
  • Tell your family about mothers you admire (your heroes)
  • Have a special mother’s day treat (tradition) you always serve like strawberry shortcake.
  • Send your children cards of appreciation for being able to be their mother

Happy Mother’s Day

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WOW upside down spells MOM. It’s a universally common title, but the real beauty and influence of motherhood begins to shine when Mom doesn’t accept the role as common. At a recent fundraising event, one couple at a shared table happened to be a Mom accompanied by her young son. Her husband couldn’t attend last minute, so his son was to take his place. As conversation progressed through the evening, it became obvious this beautiful woman did not accept her title as common. Motherhood was something she continually planned, prayed about, and sought wisdom in. It was something she put her best energies into. I knew I had found a kindred spirit when she said she was once asked what job she would choose if she could have any in the world. She said she thought about it a moment and then answered she already had it-being a stay at home Mom.

This reminded me of Cornelia Africana, an ancient Roman patrician whose maternal care and wisdom jolted Rome with the dignity and worth she brought to motherhood. One day sister patrician Compania showcased her jewels to Cornelia. After, she asked Cornelia to bring out her jewels for her to see. Cornelia in all sincerity gestured toward her young children and replied, “These are my jewels.”

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It is true Cornelia was blessed with a life of material comfort, but she was hardly spared human suffering and grief. She was widowed fairly young, and though she bore twelve children, only three survived to adulthood. Later, even her two famous sons, “the Gracchi”, she outlived, because they were cut down in their prime of life for beliefs she raised them to stand for.

WOW respects and supports the dual role of parenthood, but today WOW wants to honour the Mother, and those who do not accept the title of Mom as common.

Happy Mothers Day!