Taking sides clashing views on social issues ebook

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Back Continue. Receive via shipping: Bound book containing the complete text Full color Hardcover or softcover What are my shipping options? Program Details. YES: Allan C. Carlson and Paul T. Carlson and Mero argue that America needs to return to a traditional family headed by a man and woman. Good argues that diversity in traditional and nontraditional families is healthy.

In fact, he argues that it can be damaging to hold up the traditional family as the ideal familial structure. Their research argues that teens face significant consequences if they have unplanned pregnancy. Simon Duncan, Claire Alexander, and Rosalind Edwards have written a chapter in a book about teen pregnancy and parenting.

This chapter, which takes a global perspective by looking at another Western society, England, argues that teenage pregnancy and parenting is not a problem. NO: Alan J.

She is the author of The Polyamorists Next Door and When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous , as well as numerous academic and legal articles about polyamory, gender, families, and sexual minorities.

Sheff presents evidence that the basic tenets of polyamory are not only healthy, but can teach monogamists skills for healthier relationships. Alan J. YES: Elizabeth A. In her tenure at the times, she has written from a variety of positions on issues from real estate to education foreign affairs. Harris argues that although same-sex adoption is legal in most cases, there are state-by-state laws that challenge potential parents and a shifting legal landscape that can result in a parent being a legal stranger to their own child simply by driving across a state line.

In his article, Gomes argues that bearing children is not a right, but a responsibility and a gift. He states that gay or lesbian adults should sacrifice their homosexuality and raise a child in a home with both a husband and wife for the good of the child or sacrifice their desire to have children. She earned her Naval Aviator wings in and served as a campaign analyst while deployed overseas.

In , Brynn began working as a senior defense research scientist in private industry. She left the drilling reserves and began transition in Brynn presents the first-person narrative of her 8th-grade daughter about what it is like to have a transgender parent. Caitlin writes poignantly about the challenges she experienced when her parent came out to her as transgender.

While an advocate of trans people, she writes about the difficulties faced by a child whose parent changes their gender identity. YES: Susan A. Milstein contends that while it is difficult to create a universal definition of cheating, the majority of people feel that cybersex outside of a primary relationship is cheating.

Crystal Bedley argues that the anonymous nature of cybersex means that it is not cheating. Amy Julia Becker argues that hookup culture demeans women. From a Christian perspective, she argues that sex leads to greater life fulfillment when removed from the hookup culture. Timaree Schmit argues that hookup culture is nothing new and that it can be healthy for people to have different sexual experiences. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create, or you can search by topic, author, or keywords.

An online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing material is available for each Taking Sides volume. Using Taking Sides in the Classroom is also an excellent instructor resource. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create or you can search by topic, author, or keywords. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript or challenge questions.

Taking Sides readers feature an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites. Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Taking Sides by Kurt Finsterbusch. George McKenna. This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to current controversies in sociology and social problems. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. More Details Other Editions Friend Reviews.

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Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Another college book. This book was okay. Overall, I found the essays either didn't deal with the issues they claimed, or I simply didn't like the manner they did deal with them.

I understood what each author was saying, but I didn't always agree with their views on the issue they were trying to present It would be like trying to tal Another college book. I understood what each author was saying, but I didn't always agree with their views on the issue they were trying to present It would be like trying to talk about tax problems with someone; they want to discuss income tax while you want to talk about capital gains taxes.