ROCKFORD, Ill., July 13, 2015 /
Christian Newswire/ -- The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society announced today the retirement of its President, Allan Carlson, effective this month. He has held this post since the formal launch of the Center in February 1998.
"For several years I have anticipated retiring on reaching the age of 66," Dr. Carlson explained. "The Center has exciting opportunities ahead and it is time to bring in a new leader with vision and energy." He added: "It is also time for me to focus on several research and writing projects that I have had to put to the side."
Wayne Tew, Chairman of the Howard Center's Board of Directors, thanked Dr. Carlson for his seventeen years of service in this post. "Allan Carlson has our gratitude for building the Howard Center into a leading institution of the pro-family cause," he stated. "I am glad that he will continue to be involved with our Center's work in other ways, including continuing to serve as Editor of The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy and as a speaker at World Congress of Families events."
An announcement regarding future leadership of The Howard Center will be forthcoming.
The Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society (www.profam.org) is located in Rockford, Illinois and is an independent, non-profit research and education center that provides sound scholarship and effective strategies to affirm and encourage the natural family, thus renewing a sustainable and free society.
The Howard Center is the publisher of the journal, "The Family In America: A Journal of Public Policy,"and has special NGO consultative status at the United Nations (UN). The Howard Center the organizer of the World Congress of Families (WCF) project which is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and inter-faith people of goodwill from more than 80 countries that seek to affirm and restore the natural family as the fundamental and only sustainable unit of civil society (as found in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948). The WCF was co-founded in 1995 by Dr. Allan Carlson. To date, there have been seven official World Congresses of Families – Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004), Warsaw (2007), Amsterdam (2009), Madrid (2012) and Sydney (2013). World Congress of Families IX will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 27-30, 2015 (www.wcf9.org). For more information on World Congress of Families visit www.worldcongress.org.
