Discussion Materials

To access the desired paper, click on the title. (These files are in a PDF format which requires Adobe Reader. You may down-load this program free of charge at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. )

• The Social Role of the Family

• UN and Family Policy - (Also at http://www.state.gov/g/wi/31215.htm)

• Summary: The Doha International Conference for the Family

• Why Marriage Matters (for the summary and how to order booklet)

• Hardwired to Connect (for the summary and how to order booklet)

• Debate-Tested Sound Bites on Defending Marriage
These materials will help equip you to become an intelligent defender of the necessary
social role of husband and wife, mother and father and why they both need each other.

The following is an audio recording of the talk given by Richard Wilkins on March 20, 2004 for United Families International.

Dr. Richard Wilkins is a professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School and Director of the World Family Policy Center at Brigham Young University. He is a constitutional scholar, former Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, and has argued cases before the Supreme Court.

• Part I: Professor Wilkins talks about why we are currently in a serious constitutional crisis.

Richard Wilkins Talk - Part 1

• Part II: He discusses marriage and why a constitutional amendment on marriage is necessary, and what you can do about it.

Richard Wilkins Talk - Part 2