{"id":173,"date":"2010-02-11T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=173"},"modified":"2011-11-07T16:09:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:09:37","slug":"how-important-is-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/02\/11\/how-important-is-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"How Important is Marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a simple learning activity to be used in class with Andrew Cherlin’s\u00a0Contexts <\/em>article \u201cShould the Government Promote Marriage?<\/strong>\u201d from Fall 2003 (also found in the Contexts Reader<\/em>). Students would need to be able to reference the article as they work on this in small groups.\u00a0Click here <\/a>for a PDF of this worksheet.<\/p>\n

Directions: Get into groups of 3 or 4. As a group, find evidence given in the article that supports both sides of this debate.<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Imagine that you are a proponent of the \u201cMarriage Movement.\u201d What evidence can you find in this article that supports your argument that marriage is the best family form?<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now, imagine you are part of the \u201cDiversity Defenders.\u201d What evidence can you find in the article that supports your argument that marriage is one of many positive family forms?<\/p>\n

Now that you have examined some evidence for both sides of the debate, discuss and answer these questions with your group:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Do you think the government should encourage people to get married? If so, is there a specific group that should be targeted? If not, why not?<\/p>\n

2. Do you think that a child who is raised by married parents benefits from their marriage?<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Do you think that children who are raised within other family forms (e.g. single mothers, single fathers, gay and lesbian couples, etc.) inevitably miss out on some benefits because their parents are not married?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a simple learning activity to be used in class with Andrew Cherlin’s\u00a0Contexts article \u201cShould the Government Promote Marriage?\u201d from Fall 2003 (also found in the Contexts Reader). Students would need to be able to reference the article as they work on this in small groups.\u00a0Click here for a PDF of this worksheet. Directions: Get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[320,837,85,176],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-marriage","tag-materials","tag-politics","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}