Problems in American Democracy Part 40

14. What should be the chief aims of education with regard to preparation for home-making?

REQUIRED READINGS

1. Williamson, _Readings in American Democracy_ chapter xxiii.

Or all of the following:

2. Burch and Patterson, _American Social Problems_, chapter xxii.

3. Ellwood, _Sociology and Modern Social Problems_, chapters v, vi, vii, and viii.

4. Goodsell, _The Family as a Social and Educational Inst.i.tution_, chapters xi, xii, and xiii.

QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS

1. Discuss the origin of human marriage. (Ellwood, pages 97-108.)

2. Distinguish between the maternal and paternal types of family.

(Ellwood, pages 110-128.)

3. What was the character of the early Roman family? (Ellwood, pages 132-138.)

4. What influence has Christianity exerted upon the family? (Ellwood, pages 142-144.)

5. Summarize the ways in which industry may disintegrate the family.

(Goodsell, pages 461-464.)

6. What is the origin of higher education for women in this country?

(Goodsell, pages 439-441.)

7. Discuss the divorce rate in this country. (Ellwood, pages 148-154; Burch and Patterson, pages 315-321; Goodsell, pages 457-459.)

8. Name the various grounds upon which divorce may be secured.

(Ellwood, pages 154-157; Burch and Patterson, pages 321-322.)

9. Why is our divorce rate increasing? (Burch and Patterson, pages 322-327.)

10. What proposal has been made relative to a uniform divorce law?

(Burch and Patterson, pages 327-328.)

TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT

I

1. Interview an elderly friend for the purpose of discovering how many commodities now produced outside the home were made within the family circle a half century ago.

2. Make a list of the advantages which the city offers over the country or the small town. Make another list showing wherein it is more difficult to maintain a normal home in the city than in the more spa.r.s.ely settled districts of the country.

3. The extent to which girls and women in your community are going into industrial pursuits.

4. The marriage laws of your state.

5. The divorce laws of your state.

6. What amendments, if any, would you offer to the marriage and divorce laws of your state?

II

7. The primitive family. (Goodsell, _The Family as a Social and Educational Inst.i.tution,_ chapter ii.)

8. The family in the early stages of civilization. (Burch and Patterson, _American Social Problems,_ chapter vi.)

9. Influence of Christianity upon the family. (Goodsell, _The Family as a Social and Educational Inst.i.tution,_ chapter vi.)

10. The family in the Middle Ages. (Goodsell, _The Family as a Social and Educational Inst.i.tution,_ chapter vii.)

11. The English family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

(Goodsell, _The Family as a Social and Educational Inst.i.tution,_ chapter ix.)

12. The family in the American colonies. (Goodsell, _The Family as a Social and Educational Inst.i.tution,_ chapter x.)

13. The feminist movement. (_Annals,_ vol. lvi, part i.)

14. The home in the crowded city. (Riis, _Peril and Preservation of the Home._)

15. Desertion. (Colcord, _Broken Homes._)

16. Divorce statistics. (Willc.o.x, _The Divorce Problem,_ a study in statistics; Lichtenberger, _Divorce_, chapter v.)

17. Uniform divorce laws. (Wolfe, _Readings in Social Problems,_ chapter xv.)

18. Education for family building. (_Annals,_ vol. lxvii, pages 47- 53.)

FOR CLa.s.sROOM DISCUSSION

19. Should Congress be granted the power, through const.i.tutional amendment, to pa.s.s a Federal divorce law?

20. Should men be required to have a minimum income before being granted a marriage license?

21. Is domestic science more or less important now than it was a century ago?

22. Are the chances of a successful marriage greater or less if marriage takes place after both parties are more than twenty-five years of age?