Intercultural Family Services, Inc.'s Family Preservation Program is guided by these principles: 

• children have a right to be with their families, particularly their natural mother and father;

• the family is the fundamental resource for nurturing children;

• parents should be supported in their efforts to care for their children;

• families are diverse and have a right to be respected for the special cultural, racial, ethnic, and religious traditions that make them distinct; and

• children can be reared well in different kinds of families, and one family form should not be discriminated against in favor of another.