About WCF

WCF represents the most extensive association of organizations advocating for the preservation of the Natural Family, declaring that the Family is the union of man and woman without any other options.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is the leading international platform to exchange ideas of dozens of the world's major Pro-Family and Pro-Life groups and organizations. In response to a militant secular individualism found in parts of the 'postmodern' West, the WCF fosters an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, and political groups that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit, the 'seedbed' of good citizenship. The Congress project affirms and builds a positive united front among the family-centered religious peoples of the globe.

The World Congress of Families was initiated by Allan Carlson, President of The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society.

At the first World Congress of Families held in 1997 in Prague, the Czech Republic, a Declaration affirming the central, vital, and essential role of the natural family was adopted.

In 1999, the second World Congress of Families adopted a Declaration of Principles about the Family, now called The Geneva Declaration. It called on people of faith and all men and women of good will to work together to strengthen the natural family as the fundamental social unit of society.

In 2004 during the third World Congress of Families delegates assembled in Mexico City, from many national, ethnic, cultural, academic, social and religious communities, affirm that the natural family is established by the Creator and is fundamental to the good of the society.