At issue. Social issues

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Should vaccinations be mandatory?

2010
Contains thirteen essays that offer differing perspectives on issues related to mandatory vaccines, including issues of possible risks and religious freedom.

Foster care

2010
Presents expert discussions of foster care, covering a variety of arguments in order to facilitate the development of critical thinking skills, with primary and secondary sources and other resources to aid in research.

Slavery today

2010
Focuses on a wide range of viewpoints on the issue of slavery today, providing in-depth discussions by leading advocates. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations to contact offer a gateway to further research.

Rebuilding the World Trade Center Site

2012
Focuses on, rebuilding the World Trade Center site, and offers a variety of perspectives, eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and may more to illuminate the issue.

Is parenthood a right or a privilege?

2009
Contains fifteen essays that provide varying perspectives on issues related to parenthood, including licensing parents, limiting the number of children in a family, mentally disabled parents, and gay couples raising children.

Gay and lesbian families

2009
Contains fourteen articles in which the authors debate issues related to gay marriage, homophobia, gay adoption and parenting, family support for gay and lesbian children, and the role of religion in gay marriage.

Is racism a serious problem?

2009
Presents ten essays that argue opposing sides of racial issues in the U.S., such as whether racism undermines the judicial system, whether racial profiling is unfair, and whether the rise of white nationalist groups is a significant problem.

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