Opposing viewpoints

Provides access to a wide diversity of opinions, but also stimulates readers to do further research for group discussion and individual interest. Both shrill and moderate, the selctions by experts, policy makers, and concerned citizens include complete articles and speeches, and boxed quotations are all up to date and are fully documented.

Explore social security through a wide range of highly respected expert opinions in a unique pro-con format. Promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking.

Explore children and the entertainment industry through a wide range of highly respected expert opinions in a unique pro-con format. Promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking.

Explores social justice through a wide range of highly respected expert opinions in a unique pro-con format. Promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking.

Explores the specific issue of the banking crisis through a wide range of highly respected expert opinions in a unique pro-con format. Promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking.

Explore male and female roles, a specific issue through a wide range of highly respected expert opinions in a unique pro-con format. Promotes issue awareness as well as critical thinking.

Contains twenty-two essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to families, including characteristics of the modern family, dilemmas faced by would-be parents, divorce, and governmental policies, and provides discussion questions, contact information for organizations, and bibliographies.

Highlights both sides of the controversial abortion debate, with presentation of the ethical, political and legal views espoused by the pro-choice movement and the anti-abortion camp.

A collection of twenty-nine controversial essays that address various issues about America's prison system including incarceration of mentally ill criminals, early release for terminally ill inmates, and cross-gender prisoner searches.

Twenty-four essays present opposing viewpoints on issues related to illegal immigration to the U.S., including whether it harms the U.S., whether illegal immigrants are treated fairly, how the borders should be enforced, and how immigration policy should be reformed.