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The Servant Family
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Archbishop Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, President of The
Pontifical Council on the Family, Vatican City
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Madame Jehan Sadat, the widow of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
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The Honorable Gordon Smith, United States Senator from Oregon
The DePopulation
Crisis
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Pierre Chaunu, Philosopher, University of Paris, Emeritus*
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Nicholas Eberstadt, Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and an
associate with the Center for Population and Development Studies; author
of Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems and Fertility
Decline in Less-Developed Countries
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Victor Medkov, Professor, Department of Sociology, Moscow
Lomonosov State University; co-author of Population: An Encyclopedic
Dictionary
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The Honorable Francisco Tatad, Member of the Senate, The Republic
of the Philippines; former Majority Leader of the Philippine Senate
Parental Rights
Under Assault
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Michael Farris, President, The Home School Legal Defense
Association; author, attorney, novelist, and ordained Baptist minister
On the Equal But
Complementary Roles of Men and Women
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Elizabeth Fox Genovese, The Eleanor Raoul Professor of the
Humanities and Professor of History at Emory University; author of Feminism is Not The Story of My Life
On the
Natural and
Necessary Bonds of
Mothers, Fathers &
Children
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David Dollahite, Associate Professor of Marriage, Family and
Human Development, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University;
author of “Fathering, Faith, and Spirituality”
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Babette Francis, National and Overseas Coordinator, Endeavour
Forum of Australia
• Mohammedreza
Hojat, Director, Jefferson Longitudinal Study,
Thomas Jefferson University; author of Satisfaction with Early Relations
with Parents and Psychosocial Attributes in Adulthood:
Which Parent Contributes More?
The United Nations
and the Family: Historical Perspectives
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Richard G. Wilkins, Professor of Law, Brigham Young University,
Director of NGO Family Voice
On the Autonomy of
the Family
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of
Social and Political Ethics at The University of Chicago; author of
Democracy on Trial, The Family in Political Thought, and Public Man,
Private Woman: Women in Social Thought
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David Hartman, Chairman, The Lone Star Foundation; Chairman,
Hartland Bank of Austin, Texas
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The Honorable Max Padilla, Minister for Family Affairs, The
Republic of Nicaragua
The Meaning of
Marriage as a Lifelong Covenant
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Margaret Andrews of Australia; Co-Convenor of the Marriage
Education Programme; editor of the journal Marriage, Family and Society
Issues
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Patrick Fagan, William H.G. Fitzgerald Fellow for Family &
Culture, The Heritage Foundation; author, The Strength of the Domestic
Economy: The Marriage of Parents and the Income of Children
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Babette Francis of Australia, Overseas coordinator for Endeavor
Forum
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Rabbi Daniel Lapin, President, Toward Tradition; author of
America’s Real War
Why Give the
Natural Family Political Preference?
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David Blankenhorn, President, The Institute for American Values;
author of Fatherless America
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The Honorable Mahawa Bangoura Camara, Ambassador of the Republic
of Guinea to the United Nations*
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The Honorable Aldo Omar Carreras, Undersecretary for Population,
Interior Ministry, Republic of Argentina
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The Honorable F.L. (Ted) Morton, Professor of Political Science,
University of Calgary; Senator-Elect from the Province of Alberta to the
Canadian Senate
Family Policies
That Work
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The Honorable Kevin Andrews, Member of the Federal Australian
Parliament; chairman of The House of Representatives Committee on Legal
and Constitutional Affairs
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S. Shahid Husain, Senior Advisor, The Organization of the Islamic
Conference Mission to the United Nations
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Darrell Reid, President, Focus on the Family of Canada; former
Chief of Staff for The Reform Party of Canada
On the State’s
Relationship to the Family
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Michaela Freiova of The Czech Republic, Director of The Family
Program, The Civic Institute
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William Gairdner of Canada, author, War Against the Family and
other books
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The Honorable Wade Horn, President, The National Fatherhood
Initiative; former U.S. Commissioner for Children, Youth, and Families
Religious Faith and
Family Strength: The Vital Bond
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Jean-Marc Berthoud of Switzerland, President of the Vandoise
Association of Christian Families
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Rabbi Michael Gold of Florida, serving Temple-Beth Torah and
Tamarac Jewish Center; author of God, Love, Sex, and Family:
A Rabbi’s Guide and Family Through the Eyes of God
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Nafez Nazzal, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, BYU Study Center
in Jerusalem
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Bishop John Njue of Kenya, The Catholic Diocese of Embu
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Grand Imam Dr. Mohammad Sayed Tantawi of Egypt, Shaikh-Al-Azhar*
On the Family, The
Human Heart, Wholeness, and Peace
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Christine de Vollmer of Venezuela, President, of The Latin
American Alliance for the Family; member, The Pontifical Council on the
Family
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Madame Fatemah Hashemi Rafsanjani, Secretary General, Women’s
Solidarity Association of Iran
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Mary Ellen Smoot, General President, The Relief Society
Organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
On “Children’s
Rights” and Other Threats to Child Well-being
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Craig Hart, Program Director of Marriage, Family and Human
Development, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University
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Akira Morita of Japan, Professor of Law, Toyo University; author
of The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Its Contents, Theme and
Perspective
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Joseph Santamaria, M.D., President of the Australian Family
Association; authority on the effect of illegal drugs on the family
“Globalization”
and Threats to the Family
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Sophia Aguirre of Argentina, Associate Professor of Economics,
The Catholic University of America; international authority on health,
education, and family life in developing countries
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Harold O.J. Brown, Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed
Seminary of America; Editor, The Religion & Society Report; author
of The Sensate Culture: Western Civilization Between Chaos and
Transformation
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Maria Morfaw of The Cameroons, Director of the Village Women’s
Organization
Protecting Families
and Children from Harm by the Media
• Theodore
Baehr, President, Christian Film and Television
Commission; Publisher, Movieguide: A Family Guide to Movies and
Entertainment; author of The Media-Wise Family
On the Family and
the Binding of the Generations
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James Harper, Director, The School of Family Life, Brigham Young
University
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David Isaacs of Spain, Institute for the Study of the Family,
University of Navarre
Bioethical
Challenges to Family Wellbeing
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Joel Brind, Professor of Human Biology and Endocrinology, Baruch
College; international authority on the linkage of abortion to breast
cancer
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Mercedes Arzú Wilson of Guatemala, President, Family of the
Americas Foundation; author of Love and Family: Raising a Traditional
Family in a Secular World
On the
Irreplaceable Role of the Father
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Countess Johanna von Westphalen of Germany, Chairman of the Yes
to Life Foundation and federal chairman of The Christian Democrats for
Life
On the
Irreplaceable Role of the Mother
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Bruce Hafen, Former Dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School,
Brigham Young University; Member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
On the Helping Hand
for Families and Persons in Need
• Emmanuel Babatunde of Nigeria and the USA, Associate Professor of
Anthropology and Director of the Honors Program, Lincoln University;
author of Strengthening the Family: Implications for International
Development
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Jean Garton, Member, Board of Directors, The Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synod; Founder, Lutherans for Life (USA); author of Who
Broke the Baby?
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Donald Schmierer, Program Officer, Fieldstead & Company;
author of An Ounce of Prevention
On the Dignity and
Worth of Human Life
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Anne-Marie Buchholz-Kaiser of Switzerland, clinical psychologist
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Charles Solis, Executive Director, The REACH Family Institute, to
build programs assisting children with cerebral impairment
• Ayatollah Mohammed Ali Taskhiri of Iran, President of The
Organization of Culture and Islamic Relations
The Family as a
Center of Education
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William Mattox, columnist for USA TODAY; former Vice President of
the Family Research Council
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Dallas Miller of Canada, Senior Counsel for The Home School Legal
Defense Association of Canada
Preventing Child
Abuse
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The Honorable Paul Logli, State’s Attorney, Winnebago County,
Illinois, USA
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Philip Ney, M.D. of Canada, Director, International Institute for
Pregnancy Loss and Child Abuse Research and Recovery
Families and the
Needs of Children
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Edward Hoffman, clinical psychologist, author of Despite All
Odds: The Story of Lubavitch and The Book of Fathers’ Wisdom*
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Kayoko Murase of Japan, Director of the Taisho University
Counselling Institute (Japan)
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Terrance Olson, Professor of Marriage, Family and Human
Development, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University
On Family &
Sexuality
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Rita Joseph of Australia; lecturer and family leader
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Margaret Ogola, M.D. of Kenya, Medical Director of Cottolengo
Hospice for HIV-Positive Orphans; author of The River and the Source (a
novel) and Education in Human Love
On the Power of the
Home Economy
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Anatoli Antonov, Professor of Sociology, and Chairman of Family
Sociology Department, Moscow Lomonosov State University; author of
Microsociology of the Family
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Allan Carlson, President of The Howard Center For Family,
Religion & Society; author of From Cottage to Work Station; The New
Agrarian Mind
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Kathleen Bahr, Associate Professor of Marriage, Family, and Human
Development, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University
On the Home as a
Spiritual Center
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Rabbi Daniel Lapin, President, Toward Tradition; author of
America’s Real War
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Michal Semin of The Czech Republic, President, The Civic
Institute
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Ivan Shevchenko of Russia, Chairman, Russian Orthodox Brotherhood
of Scientists and Specialists; author of Religion, The Family, and the
Earth: On the Ecology of
Being
The Family at the
United Nations: Where Do We Go From Here?
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Gwen Landolt, National Vice President, REAL Women of Canada;
attorney
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Austin Ruse, President, Catholic Family & Human Rights
Institute
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Juliette Sayegh of Lebanon, Delegate to the United Nations from
the General Arab Women’s Federation
Special
Entertainment
 Entertainment
for the WCFII is being produced and coordinated by One Heart, Inc., a
non-profit organization founded by family entertainment legend Alan
Osmond and his wife Suzanne. Planned
performers include an international children’s group, choirs, the
popular Goodman Family, and some special surprises.
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