Taking sides.
By: selected, edited, and with introductions by Elizabeth Schroeder.
Contributors: Schroeder, Elizabeth.
Edition: 7th ed.
Series: McGraw-Hill contemporary learning series
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dubuque, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780073397146
Subjects: Families -- United States; Parent and child -- United States; Adoption -- United States; Divorce -- United States -- Influence; Abortion -- United States; Home schooling -- United States; Same-sex marriage -- United States; Sexual orientation -- United States; Debates and debating -- Guidebooks
Genres: Guidebooks
Other titles: Clashing views in family and personal relationships; Issues in family and personal relationships; Family and personal relationships
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unit 1. Is it ever appropriate to spank a child?; title: Should adoptive parents adopt only within their own racial/ethnic group?; title: Does divorce create long-term negative effects for children?; title: Should parents homeschool their children?; title: Do mothers who work outside of the home have a negative effiect on their children?; title: Unit 2. Should "Abstinence-Until-marriage" be the only message for teens?; title: Should parents routinely vaccinate their children?; title: Should parents be able to select the biological sex of their children?; title: Should parents surgically alter their intersex infants?; title: Should minors be required to get their parent's permission in order to obtain an abortion?; title: Unit 3. Should same-sex couples be allowed to legally marry?; title: Should the U.S. Constitution be amended to protect the "Sanctity of Marriage"?; title: Should lesbians and gay individuals be allowed to adopt children?; title: Unit 4. Is cybersex "Cheating"?; title: Are open relationships healthy?; title: Does pornography reduce the incidence of rape?; title: Should men who have sex with men be allowed to donate blood?; title: Are statutory rape laws effective at protecing minors?