Family

Joe McIlhaney, MD is the Founder and Chairman of The Medical Institute for Sexual Health....

I lived as a woman for eight years....

Hawaii's Ohana Policy Group is developing strategies and tactics to combat in-school lifestyle indoctrination....

The appointment of Medeiros fills the vacancy created by the appointment of Judge Christine E. Kuriyama to the Circuit Court of the First Circuit....

In 1991, my father died of AIDS. None of my father’s partners/ex-partners are still alive....

...Hawaii State Capitol Auditorium on Thursday, April 16th @ 7 PM....

Today is 2nd Decking, which means that all bills must be in their FINAL FORM so that the chamber they are in can vote on them....

...one week before 2nd legislative decking....

...Memories Pizza isn’t an isolated incident.... Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich was forced to step down... In January, Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran was fired ....

Below are bills that were heard between Friday, March 20, 2015 and Thursday, March 26, 2015....

If confirmed by the State Senate, Domingo will serve a term of six years....

Fukumoto Chang is right in that the interests of families may be better served at this point of the game with a vote of “with reservations” to keep a seat at the discussion table....

... Gender is an opinion ....

...Comments must be post-marked, emailed, faxed, or hand delivered no later than Thursday, April 2, 2015. All comments will be kept confidential....

...scheduled for hearings this week....

...House bills will now move through Senate committees and Senate bills will move through House committees....

How did your Representative and Senator vote?

"...In the light Lawrence v. Texas and Reliable Consultants v. Abbott, the State can no longer simply say that morality is a sufficient reason...."

Mahalo for taking the time to engage your public officials....

"We want to encourage parents to always be the ones that are responsible for what their kids are learning in the public school system," Hawaii Family Forum's Eva Andrade said....

The Hawaii State Legislature opened on January 21, 2015 and today, February 20, 2015, is DECKING.  What that means is that all bills that have been assigned to multiple committees, must have moved to their final committees....

...bills that might have negative impacts on families or communities....

...HB631 will be granted a hearing tomorrow, Wednesday, February 18th....

...to be heard by the Committees this week....

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2015 at the Kamiano Center on Fort Street Mall, at 6:30 P.M....

Testimony will be heard on HB624 Tuesday morning at 8:30 am in room 326....

Among 15-year-old students in the United States, 20.7 percent live in single-parent families....

...we pursue a comprehensive bullying prevention bill and legislation to make it easier for trans folks to get proper (sic) birth certificates in the spring legislative session....

The CARE Act will help families by involving family caregivers more intentionally in the hospital discharge process....

...the appointment of James “Duke” Aiona as interim executive director will strengthen the organization’s ability to speak for families across the state....

Despite being unemployed and residing in a homeless shelter, Mr. Rios applied to be a foster parent, and was deemed fit to serve as one by DHS....

Are strong families essential for a free society?

A prominent gay rights activist charged last week with sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy ... has visited the White House more than a half-dozen times in the past two years....

"...researchers are asking 11-year-olds whether they’ve had sex, how many partners they’ve had and if they’ve had anal sex...."

"...the Pono Choices survey instruments ... are part of an ongoing research project...."

We crunched the numbers using the six criteria below to determine if the state you live in is prime habitat for a downer of a Thanksgiving....

Hawaii voters opposed same sex marriage in 1998 by a vote of 69.2 percent to 28.6 percent....

Ministers face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding....

New Household Survey Finds that Unmet Demand for Afterschool Programs in the State Persists....

HFA endorses these candidates for this election only....

...The gift cards, valued at between $10 and $20 each, are issued to 11, 12 and 13-year-olds....

The judges added that other lawsuits challenging Hawaii's marriage equality law already in the pipeline "do not defeat mootness" in this case....

...Students, the teachers, and community liaisons were given over $52,000.00 in gift cards in violation of Hawaii State law....

Today the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review appeals from Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Indiana and Wisconsin on the definition of marriage....

The Hawaii Family Forum/Hawaii Catholic Conference voter guide for the General Election is now available....