Taking sides. Clashing views in family and personal relationships / selected, edited, and with introductions by Elizabeth Schroeder.
Material type: TextSeries: McGraw-Hill contemporary learning seriesPublication details: Dubuque, Iowa : McGraw Hill, c2008.Edition: 7th edDescription: xxii, 298 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780073397146
- 0073397148
- Clashing views in family and personal relationships
- Issues in family and personal relationships
- Family and personal relationships
- 306.850973 22
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Unit 1. Is it ever appropriate to spank a child? -- Should adoptive parents adopt only within their own racial/ethnic group? -- Does divorce create long-term negative effects for children? -- Should parents homeschool their children? -- Do mothers who work outside of the home have a negative effiect on their children? -- Unit 2. Should "Abstinence-Until-marriage" be the only message for teens? -- Should parents routinely vaccinate their children? -- Should parents be able to select the biological sex of their children? -- Should parents surgically alter their intersex infants? -- Should minors be required to get their parent's permission in order to obtain an abortion? -- Unit 3. Should same-sex couples be allowed to legally marry? -- Should the U.S. Constitution be amended to protect the "Sanctity of Marriage"? -- Should lesbians and gay individuals be allowed to adopt children? -- Unit 4. Is cybersex "Cheating"? -- Are open relationships healthy? -- Does pornography reduce the incidence of rape? -- Should men who have sex with men be allowed to donate blood? -- Are statutory rape laws effective at protecing minors?
This debate-style reader includes a compilation of issues debating aspects of marriage, family life and traditional assumptions; challenges to successful relationships; parenthood; and relational conflict and dissolution.