(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 is now The William FitzGerald Fellow in Family and Culture Issues at The Heritage Foundation. His monographs focus on crime, welfare, child abuse, drug addiction, the breakdown of marriage and the abandonment of regular religious worship of God. 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.