Talk:Family Policy Council

message: It seems like we're getting some serious scope creep in this article. The title alone is odd, especially the word "Council." It seems to me this article started out as a list of programs in the Family Research Council's "Family Policy Council" thing. That's a very specific criteria. Now it's broadened into "any organization having to do with families." For example, the "Families like mine" link has nothing to do with governmental policy. Same with PFOX. This is starting to stray into indiscriminate list category. eaolson 16:30, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: OK, hold on...

message: "traditional" family values is POV.
Your use of the word "liberal" in regards to families with interracial parents, same-sex partners, and single parents is also not appropriate. --DCX (talk) 20:16, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "liberal " and "traditional" family values 

message: Several points have been made that no one has taken action on.  I'll do so if I can be assured that my work won't be swept away two minutes later.  I've researched this, and it is clear that Family Policy Council is a "brand name" of Focus on the Family and the Family Research Center. It is a name used by them for their state affiliates.  (In other words, FOTF itself is not an FPC, even though it shares their agenda.)  To put it simply, the term FPC has entered the lexicon because of the FOTF organizations, so that's how it should be covered.  While there have obviously always been groups working to help children and provide support for parents, the FPCs started by FOTF are a specific type of organization with a pretty specific (and pretty uniform) conservative agenda.  Of course, the article should still make clear that there are organizations with different and sometimes opposing agendas, and that the generic term family policy council might be said to apply to some of them.  I'll spend some time on this after hearing no objection, or better yet, some words of agreement.Historydude58 (talk) 08:17, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, my research also indicates that "family policy council" functions as a brand name of Focus on the Family state affiliates, with one or two exceptions, namely a government coalition in Washington State that shared the name. I agree that organizations with different or opposing agendas deserve a mention too. I've tried my best to sort all that out in the first few paragraphs, and back it up with an "Origin" section and citations Jno.skinner (talk) 07:16, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taking Action on Previous Discussion Points 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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message: I've overhauled this whole article. There seemed to be long-running ambiguity concerning if "family policy council" is to be treated as a generic (and lower-cased) term designating many types of groups, or if is to be treated as a proper noun, a "brand name" of Focus on the Family. After research, it seems that in the mid 1990s the term was floating around, designating a couple different things, but that today it's used exclusively in the "brand name" sense. I've changed the article to reflect this, added an "Origins" section detailing what I know of the etymology, and "Operations" and "Impact" sections with additional cited research. If anyone's looking at this, let me know what you think. Jno.skinner (talk) 02:44, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article overhaul