Discuss the various means of assisted fertility covered in the chapter, including adoption. Do you think more or less regulation is required? What new legislation might make the adoption system more rational?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Students may focus on the relative lack of regulation of
reproductive technologies in the United States, in comparison to other western
countries, or the lack of health insurance coverage. Or they may focus on the difficulties
put in the path of prospective adoptive parents who differ from the SNAF model.
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In the ABC-X family crisis model, "C" is the
a. family's ability to cope with a crisis. b. crisis. c. family's appraisal of the stressor event. d. stressor event.
How do the conservative, liberal, and radical-left points of view define environmental problems? Which view is the most optimistic? Which is the most pessimistic? How does each point of view define solutions to many of the environmental problems discussed in the chapter?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following intellectual currents was embraced by early British sociologists? Select all, but only those that apply.
a. Ameliorism b. Political Economy c. Socialism d. Social Evolution
A researcher who is studying in a local school district realizes that its problems are also occurring in the majority of public school districts within the United States. This researcher is connecting ______ to ______ social phenomena.
A. local; global B. micro; macro C. private; public D. agency; structure