UN Fund Leader Celebrates Breakdown of Families

LifeSiteNews reported February 3, 2009, on the remarks of the leader of a UN fund.

A leader in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has declared that the breakdown of traditional families, far from being a “crisis,” is actually a triumph for human rights.

Speaking at a colloquium held last month at Colegio Mexico in Mexico City, UNFPA representative Arie Hoekman denounced the idea that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births represent a social crisis, claiming that they represent instead the triumph of “human rights” against “patriarchy.”

"In the eyes of conservative forces, these changes mean that the family is in crisis," he said. "In crisis? More than a crisis, we are in the presence of a weakening of the patriarchal structure, as a result of the disappearance of the economic base that sustains it and because of the rise of new values centered in the recognition of fundamental human rights."

Throwing children into the emotional devastation brought on by their parents' divorce is a "human right." Silly patriarchal conservatives see that as a problem. Maybe the Enlightened Ones at the UN should ask the children how they feel about their "triumph."

Leonardo Casco, a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family and a citizen of Honduras, told LifeSiteNews that he wasn't surprised that the UNFPA was denying the crisis in the family.

"They definitely have to deny that there is a crisis in the family, because they have created the crisis," he said.

Calling the UNFPA "bureaucrats at the service of death," Casco observed that "after 45 years of birth control, the pill, disrespect for marriage for the family, for children, etc, this is the result. Because of that we have violence, war, lack of respect of women, children."

The UNFPA recently celebrated the restoration of US support after seven years, during which they were denied funding by the Bush administration. UNFPA has cooperated with and even helped to subsidize China's One Child Policy, which persecutes and performs forced abortions on women who have more than one child.

In addition to its support for forced abortions, the UNFPA has helped to administer forced sterilizations in South America and is involved in the distribution and promotion of contraceptives and sterilization worldwide, with a focus on poorer countries.

That sure sounds like the kind of agency I'd want lecturing me on human rights. Good thing President Obama has restored our support for them. We certainly have plenty of cash available for such important things as sterilizing poor Hispanics and demolishing the patriarchal hierarchy.
Maybe President Obama can be a trend-setter by divorcing Michelle, and then we can see how well his daughters hold up under the triumph. The UN would be so pleased.