Family Values and the New Society: Dilemmas of the 21st Century
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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.
ISBN
978-0275962210
Publication Date
1998
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Smith, George P. II, "Family Values and the New Society: Dilemmas of the 21st Century" (1998). Faculty Books. 45.
https://scholarship.law.edu/fac_books/45