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The Family Research Institute was founded in 1982 with one overriding mission: to generate empirical research on issues that threaten the traditional family, particularly homosexuality, AIDS, sexual social policy, and drug abuse. FRI believes that published scientific material has a profound impact, both in the United States and around the world.
FRI was the first traditionally-minded organization to conduct scientific research in these areas and to publish it in peer-reviewed professional journals. Produced by scholars, this research provides lasting empirical evidence and influences public policy. FRI's scientific articles can be accessed in almost all university and medical libraries around the globe.
Family Research Institute is a non-profit scientific and educational corporation that believes the strength of our society depends on preserving America's historic moral framework and the traditional family. FRI is working to produce sound, scientific data on pressing social issues — especially homosexuality — in an effort to promote traditional policies. We welcome all who would join in the fight to restore a world where marriage is upheld and honored, where children are nurtured and protected, and where homosexuality is not taught and accepted, but instead is discouraged and rejected at every level.
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U.S. Incarcerations Rising
The United States is slowly becoming a less successful society. After all, a successful society: 1) produces enough to meet the needs of its populace; 2) is generally law abiding; and 3) generates a sufficient number of well-bred children (i.e., born and raised in marriage) to sustain itself. Sure, America produces more than enough stuff. So does Europe. Yet Europe is collapsing by failing to generate sufficient children — even outside of marriage. And the U.S. is starting to crack as well.
One indication of this decline is the amount of criminality being observed. The number of U.S. adults in the correctional system has been increasing steadily (see Figure 1). Furthermore, female criminality is on the rise.
In 2005, over 7 million people aged 20-49 were on probation, in prison (for sentences of more than one year), in jail (local confinement while pending trial, awaiting sentencing, or serving a shorter sentence), or on parole (supervision after a period of incarceration). This amounts to about 3% of all U.S. adults and about 1 of every 10 men. Today’s figure of 3% compares with about 1% of all adults back in 1980.
Females accounted for 7% of all prisoners in 2005, 6.1% in 1995, and 5.7% in 1990. The share of women involved in the legal system is increasing: since 1995 the fraction of women prisoners has increased by about 4.6% every year compared to a 3.0% per year increase for men. By the end of 2005, 1 of every 1,538 women and 1 of every 108 men were in state or federal prison.
While not necessarily catastrophic, such a trend bodes ill for society. Not only are most of these 7 million less productive, but they require millions of other productive citizens to catch, process, and house them (when incarcerated). Clearly, the greater the proportion of the population that is criminally disruptive, the more workers that will be required to manage them. A disruptive person not only reduces
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Right or Wrong? Should the Boy Scouts Exclude Homosexuals?
 Over the past decade, Scouting has been under attack by the gay rights movement and its supporters. The reason is quite simple. As a matter of policy, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) excludes open or active homosexuals from its adult leadership. Critics of Scouting want the Boy Scouts to reverse this policy.
The basic question this booklet answers is this: Does the bulk of empirical and scientific evidence — as compiled and analyzed by contemporary social scientists — support the current BSA policy or does the evidence validate the claims of BSA’s critics?
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Same-Sex Marriage |
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Updated Pamphlet!
Society has a vested interest in prohibiting behavior that endangers the health or safety of the community. Because of this, homosexual liaisons have historically been forbidden by law. Homosexuals also do a poor job of raising healthy, well-socialized children.
Homosexuals contend that their relationships are the equivalent of marriage between a man and woman. They demand that society dignify and approve of their partnerships by giving them legal status as ‘marriages.’ They further argue that homosexuals should be allowed to become foster-parents or adopt children.
The best scientific evidence suggests that putting society’s stamp of approval on homosexual partnerships would harm society in general and children in particular.
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The Gay Nineties - Book |
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What the Empirical Evidence Reveals About Homosexuality
 by Dr. Paul Cameron
Foreward by Dr. William L. Playfair
The Gay 90s is a solid research effort that examines the science and politics that underpin the Gay rights movement. Dr. Cameron traces the assembling and ordering of the scientific community's assault on traditional values to the National Research Council just after WWI.
While many have rightly attacked the Kinsey report for having begun the process of 'homosexualizing' our culture, few realize that the National Research Council [NRC] prepared the way for and funded Kinsey.
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Stopping Gay Rights |
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Can Anything Be Done to Stop Gay Rights?
 Changing the Moral Paradigm Through Scientific Research
A Vision Statement of Family Research Institute
The Family Research Institute [FRI] needs your help. FRI has been in business for almost 25 years. But now we as a society and as an organization face a unique crossroads:
- America is sliding rapidly down the slope of sexual license and homosexualization.
- Neither the conservative movement nor the pro-family movement has been able to stop this descent....
- ...no other organization in the pro-family movement or among the Christian and conservative colleges is presently doing scientific research of its own to counter the existing body of pro-homosexual empirical data,...
- Conservative strategies on homosexuality were dealt a near-fatal blow by the Supreme Court’s 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas....
- Science and scientific reasoning are increasingly the arbiters of public policy. Without scholarship of their own in hand, conservatives have few weapons in their arsenal...
FRI has a solution and a long-term battle plan.... But we need help....
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View from the Chair
October 2006. Historian Paul Johnson admitted in The Quest for God (1996) that:
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Rebutting the New Republic's Attack on Cameron
Reprinted from Family Research Report, Nov-Dec 1994
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Reciprocal Beneficiaries
The truth about RBAs. Why they lead to 'marriage lite' for homosexuals.
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