How to Use pro-family in a Sentence

pro-family

adjective
  • The Republican lawmakers pitched their proposal as a pro-family bill.
    — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • As much as Frank Gilbreth appeared to be a pro-family man, his studies and innovations lead to a very anti-family conclusion.
    — Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Marriage, on your terms The freedom to marry—or not—is another essential element of a pro-family society.
    — Stephanie Psaki, Time, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Advertisement Choice, not control, in parenthood A truly pro-family policy begins with the right to decide whether and when to become a parent.
    — Stephanie Psaki, Time, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The difference between a genuinely pro-family agenda and a coercive one lies in the underlying assumptions and motivations.
    — Sonya Borrero, STAT, 1 May 2026
  • California should build a pro-family agenda that includes prenatal care, maternal health and adoption support, not a system that responds to a vulnerable situation by facilitating death.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Cross-dressing was prohibited, as were speeches that mocked or questioned the party’s prudish, pro-family, heteronormative views on gender and sexuality; traditional German culture was to be celebrated, not mocked.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2026
  • On the right, pro-family commentators argue low fertility is an urgent fiscal and social problem worth spending money on—pointing to international evidence that cash-like benefits can raise births, though at high cost and with effects that may time-shift rather than transform lifetime fertility.
    — Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
  • National committees, defending their narrow House edge, should allocate $5 million – $10 million to ads contrasting hallmark Democrat disorder in the political and social spheres with GOP solutions that are pro-business, pro-family, pro-law and order.
    — Kristin Tate, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025

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