- Do you consider America a melting pot or a salad bowl? Explain your answer.
- What is God’s intention for cultural diversity?
- How can Christians provide services to families in poverty?
- How is networking important to special-needs families?
- Discuss a Christian response to homosexuality.
Books:
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriageby Kathryn Edin
and Maria Kefalas. (University of California Press, 2007)
Movies:
American Family: Journey of Dreams.The first drama series to air on broadcast TV
featuring a Latino family. To find out more about listings in your area, visit http://www.pbs.org
(accessed June 23, 2009).
Remember the Titans,(PG). DVD. Looks at family structures in different cultures,
including evaluating stereotypes.
Waging a Living,(NR).Docudrama which looks at America’s working poor
The Color Purple,(PG-13). Drama that shows the problems faced by African-American
women during the early 1900s including poverty, racism, and sex discrimination.
Resources
Questions for Thought
Chapter 11