Family values and the new society : dilemmas of the 21st century
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Family values and the new society : dilemmas of the 21st century
Praeger, 1998
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Bibliography: p. [269]-270
Includes index
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Description
Beset by socio-legal challenges, medical, and scientific advances in reproduction, feminist philosophies and complex questions regarding its contemporary relevance, the family-together with the core values that have sustained over the years-is being tested, re-evaluated, and redesigned. This book directs its focus to the current national debate on family values providing a strong and practical framework for decisionmaking in topical problem areas which integrate the social sciences, law, medicine, political science, economics, ethics, philosophy, and religion.
This book analyzes both from a practical and scholastic perspective, nine areas of central focus or challenge to mainstream notions of the family. Feminist perspectives on reproductive rights and responsibilities, domestic partnerships and same-sex relationships, and new assisted reproductive technologies (such as organ harvesting and child abuse) are just some of the issues discussed as they relate to individuals and to the family and the values that have been the backbone of American life. The author suggests an ethical ordering that balances traditional strengths of American life with accomodation for new normative standards.
Table of Contents
Preface Familial Challenges, Conflicts, or Dilemmas in the New Millennium Challenging or Restructuring the Concept of Family Feminist Perspectives: Enhancing or Threatening Traditional Values? Reproductive Privacy or Social Responsibility: Toward a New Genetic Family Domestic Partnerships and Same-Sex Relationships Testing the Limits of Procreational Autonomy Intra-Familial and External Discontinuities Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Artificial Insemination, Surrogation, and In Vitro Fertilization Incest and Intrafamilial Child Abuse Pornography and Obscenity Dissolving the Family and Expanding Its Relevance Death: Dying with Dignity Organ Harvesting: Salvaging a New Beginning Selected Bibliography Index
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