Family Focus
Family Focus is a campaigning organisation that campaigns against more 'liberal' methods of bringing up children and family values, mainly in the areas of reproduction and lax 'moral values'. These types of family values are often found in the Daily Mail.
History
Dr Adrian Rogers has campaigned for many years on trying to PReVENT more 'liberal' ways of bringing up children, which sometimes make no reference to promoting the family as the core vehicle for having and bringing up children. Dr Rogers stood for the Conservative Party in the 1997 election for Exeter. The organisation has sprung up from the remnants of the Conservative Family Institute.
Function
It advocates bringing up and people having children (reproducing) in more traditional ways where the family plays a leading role, not a walk on part. It is based on 'Christian' values of bringing up children, and as a result is not in favour of less 'traditional' ways of bringing up children such as involving homosexual couples (who would not normally be able to procreate without medical intervention).
Types of campaigns it focuses on are:
- Teenage pregnancy - there is usually only one parent in these, and involves under-age [...] by children. None of this is welcomed by the organisation.
- Under-age [...]
- Homosexual couples adopting children - this is neither favoured by Christian organisations or particularly 'natural', which is not favoured by the organisation
- Abortion - not supported by Christian organisations