Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Family and Personal Relationships - Brossura

Schroeder, Elizabeth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0073397148 ISBN 13: 9780073397146

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007

Riassunto

This Seventh Edition of TAKING SIDES: CLASHING VIEWS IN FAMILY AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructor’s manual with testing material is available for each volume. USING TAKING SIDES IN THE CLASSROOM is also an excellent instructor resource with practical suggestions on incorporating this effective approach in the classroom. Each TAKING SIDES reader features an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites and is supported by our student website, www.mhcls.com/online.

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Unit 1 Parental Decision-Making: What’s Best for Children…Or What’s Best for Parents?

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Issue 1. Is It Ever Appropriate to Spank a Child?

YES: 38377 Walter L. Larimore, from "Is Spanking Actually Harmful to Children?" Focus on the Family (Focus on the Family, 2002)

NO: 31968 Irwin A. Hyman, from The Case Against Spanking: How to Discipline Your Child Without Hitting (Jossey-Bass, 1997)

Walter L. Larrimore, vice president of medical outreach at Focus on the Family, explains that parents have always spanked their children, and believes that what we see in the media are only examples of times when parents have become abusive rather than using spanking appropriately. Irwin A. Hyman, director of the National Center for Study of Corporal Punishment and Alternatives, argues that there is never any reason to hit a child. Focusing on the emotional effects of spanking, he asserts that spanking is much more likely to teach children to tolerate and perpetuate violence than it is to correct disobedience.

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Issue 2. Should Adoptive Parents Adopt Only Within Their Own Racial/Ethnic Group?

YES: 45853 Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, from "Promoting Same-Race Adoption for Children of Color," Social Work (vol. 43, no. 2, 1998)

NO: 45854 Ezra E. H. Griffith and Rachel L. Bergeron, from "Cultural Stereotypes Die Hard," The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (vol. 34, no. 3, 2006)

Leslie Doty Hollingsworth, an associate professor of social work at the University of Michigan, offers a history of transracial adoption that has involved primarily white adoptive parents and Black or African American children. She argues that children are best served if they are adopted by families of their same racial background, and that systematic changes—such as adoption services and programs better geared towards adults of color—would enable more families to adopt children from their own backgrounds. Ezra Griffith and Rachel Bergeron, both faculty members of the Yale University School of Medicine’s psychiatry department, argue that requiring racial and ethnic matching, while an appropriate effort, would leave too many children of color languishing in the foster and adoption systems. By maintaining that only in-race adoption is the best and idea situation, they ask rhetorically, does our society actually do more to reinforce cultural stereotypes or to truly serve children needing homes?

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Issue 3. Does Divorce Create Long-Term Negative Effects for Children?

YES: 45855 Elizabeth Marquardt, from "The Bad Divorce," First Things (February 2005)

NO: 45858 Constance Ahrons, from We're Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents' Divorce (Harper Collins, 2004)

In reviewing Constance Ahrons’ book, We’re Still Family: What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorce, Elizabeth Marquardt, director of the Center for Marriage and Families at the Institute for American Values, argues that the manner in which Ahrons’ questions were asked in her study yielded comments from participants in which they minimized the negative effects that their parents’ divorce had on them. Through a combination of her own personal experience as a child of divorce and her work in the field, she maintains that divorce is a “tragedy” that dramatically and negatively impacts children for the rest of their lives. Constance Ahrons, author of What Grown Children Have to Say About Their Parents’ Divorce and founding co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, found in her research findings that the ideas that children of divorced families end up much more troubled and unable to form adult relationships themselves are myths, that many adults whose parents divorced emerged from the experience stronger, wiser, and with closer relationships with their fathers, remaining connected to their families of origin even when the parent with whom they lived created a new stepfamily.

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Issue 4. Should Parents Homeschool Their Children?

YES: 45860 Chris Jeub, from "Homeschool” and “Reasons for Homeschooling," Focus on the Family (2006)

NO: 45862 Carole Moore, from "Why It's Not Right for Us," Scholastic.com (2006)

Chris Jeub, writer and president of Training Minds Ministries, is a former public school teacher with 11 children, all of whom he and his wife have homeschooled. Naming several famous homeschooled individuals, such as Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, and Florence Nightingale, he argues that the home is the bst environment in which to teach children, for social, academic, family strengthening, and religious reasons. Homeschooling, he maintains, frees parents to impart their own values to their children without concern for how these beliefs might clash with what is presented in the public school system. Carole Moore, a freelance writer, discusses how she weighed the options of home vs. public schooling and argues that even though homeschooling might offer some benefits to children, in the end, children who are homeschooled provides a distorted view of the world at large. Children will, she writes, make good decisions and bad decisions as a part of growing up, and whether they are home schooled or public schooled is not the determining factor in whether they grow up healthy and well-adjusted.

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Issue 5. Do Mothers Who Work Outside the Home Have a Negative Effect on Their Children?

YES: 35548 Jeanne/Brooks-Gunn, Wen-Jui Han and Jane Waldfogel, from "Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Outcomes in the First Three Years of Life: The NICHD Study of Early Child Care," Child Development (July/August 2002)

NO: 35549 Thomas M. Vander Ven et al., from "Home Alone: The Impact of Maternal Employment on Delinquency," Social Problems (May 2001)

Child developmentalists Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Wen-Jui Han, and Jane Waldfogel assert that their findings show many types of negative effects from maternal employment on the later cognitive and educational outcomes of children. Professor of sociology and anthropology Thomas M. Vander Ven and his colleagues argue that their studies show that the qualities or quantities of a mother working have relatively little or no influence on the social, emotional, and behavioral functioning of her children.

Unit 2 How Much Control Should Parents Have Over Their Children?

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Issue 6. Should "Abstinence-Until-Marriage" Be the Only Message for Teens?

YES: 38381 Bridget E. Maher, from "Abstinence Until Marriage: The Best Message for Teens," Family Research Council (2004)

NO: 38382 Sue Alford, from "What's Wrong with Federal Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Requirements?" Transitions (March 2001)

Bridget E. Maher, an analyst on marriage and family issues at the Family Research Council, argues that far too much funding has gone into programs that teach young people about sexuality and contraception—programs that she asserts are ineffective. She points out that most teens say they and their peers should receive strong messages about abstinence. Sue Alford, editor and director of public information services at Advocates for Youth, argues that young people are receiving sexuality information and messages from so many sources that it is irresponsible to restrict sexuality and other educators from discussing only abstinence. She maintains that the programs taught under the Abstinence Until Marriage funding often provide factually inaccurate information and hyperbolic assertions pertaining to the potential consequences of sexual relationships outside of marriage.

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Issue 7. Should Parents Routinely Vaccinate Their Children?

YES: 45864 Ferdinand D. Yates, Jr., from "Should Children Be Routinely Immunized?" The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity (April 16, 2004)

NO: 45865 Jini Patel Thompson, from "Should I Vaccinate My Child?" Well Being Journal (March/April 2003)

Ferdinand Yates, Jr. supports routine childhood immunizations, and offers an array of research demonstrating their efficacy and relative low risk of harm. He argues that society needs to be able to think beyond its own family structure, and consider that not vaccinating a child puts that child at higher risk for several contagious diseases, which could then be transmitted to others. Jini Patel Thompson speaks from her position as a parent who had to decide whether to vaccinate her child, and based on her own research, decided against it. She, too, cites a variety of research sources to demonstrate that the potential negative side effects of vaccinations, both lon g- and short-term, are not worth the potential positive outcomes for children.

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Issue 8. Should Parents Be Able to Select the Biological Sex of Their Children?<...

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0073397148
• ISBN 13: 9780073397146
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320