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I agree with Sarah. I think the statement that America "is a society without a clear unitary set of family ideals and values" was used by Mintz and Kellogg as a way to lend more relevancy to their work. -- Rebecca | I agree with Sarah. I think the statement that America "is a society without a clear unitary set of family ideals and values" was used by Mintz and Kellogg as a way to lend more relevancy to their work. -- Rebecca | ||
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| + | <p>On page xiii Mintz and Kellogg say that the expectation that "sex should be confined to marriage" used to be one of the givens for proper family life.</p> | ||
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| + | <p>I wonder if they are claiming that the expectation has changed over the course of American history. Do people today really look differently on matters of extra-marital sex than people did hundreds of years ago? </p> | ||
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| + | <p>I would guess that attitudes about pre-marital sex have not changed very much. (ie: everyone knows it happens a lot, parents are not happy about it, and the behavior is officially frowned upon). </p> | ||
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| + | <p>I think attitudes about adultery have not changed very much either. (ie: everyone knows it happens a lot, people don't like being cheated on, and there is some legal recourse to punish an unfaithful spouse.)</p> | ||
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| + | <p>The only real change that I can think of now is that there might be more laws in place concerning parental rights and responsibilities for children who were born outside of marriage. </p> -- Rebecca | ||
