families https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:31:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg families https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 SPOTLIGHT: Education is Possible https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/01/spotlight-education-is-possible/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:00:49 +0000 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=28694 Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg

In this special episode of Illinois Family Spotlight, Pastor Ceasar LeFlore sits down with Latasha Fields to discuss education, parental rights, and community empowerment.

Latasha Fields has been a home educator for over 18 years and her passion for parental rights and quality education is evident. She is a former candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, is a critic of the public school system, and has even testified before the U.S. Congress on “Poverty in America: Economic Realities of Struggling Families.”… Continue Reading

]]> 28694 The Government Failed at Fatherhood https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/06/the-government-failed-at-fatherhood/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:00:35 +0000 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=26579 Written by Victor Joecks

The government spent decades trying to make fathers unnecessary. The failure of that experiment put society on the long-term path to collapse.

Sunday was Father’s Day. It’s much less popular than Mother’s Day for a sad reason.

Fewer fathers are involved in their children’s lives. That’s caused by two main factors.

The first is children born to single moms. In 2022, almost 40% of births were to unmarried women, according to the CDC.… Continue Reading

]]> 26579 2016 Illinois GOP Platform Report https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/05/2016-illinois-gop-platform-report/ Mon, 23 May 2016 18:03:23 +0000 http://ifaction.wpengine.com/?p=6232 Written by David E. Smith 

The 2016 Illinois Republican Convention was held in Peoria this past weekend on Friday and Saturday. We are thrilled to report that leftists within the party failed to advance their agenda in the newly adopted 2016 Illinois GOP Platform.

If fact, Illinois Republicans strengthened the Right to Life plank in the platform and rejected an attempt to water down and distort the Marriage and Family plank!

THANK YOU to all of you who took time last week to contact the members of the platform committee and helped to spread the word of the attempt to subvert the Marriage and Family plank. … Continue Reading

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