Choose either question 1 or 2 and post an initial 200 word response to your selected question by Day 4 (Thursday) and respond to other students' postings in the question that you did not answer by Day...

Choose either question 1 or 2 and post an initial 200 word response to your selected question by Day 4 (Thursday) and respond to other students' postings in the question that you did not answer by Day 6 (Saturday). Your response post must add something new to the discussion. Title your posts and include the name of the author of the reading you are addressing.

Your posts must be in accordance with theUniversity’s Threaded Discussion Guidelines.

Q1. Struening Reading: Families "in Law" and "in Practice"

Karen Struening shows that the legal system often lags behind the reality of how people live their lives. She describes various social and legal challenges families face when everyday practices outpace changes in the law. She gives examples that range from same-sex marriage to step-families to technology-assisted reproduction and surrogacy arrangements.

Based on this reading, complete the following:

• Describe social and legal changes that have altered beliefs that family is the result of marriage and biology alone.


• Identify two types of cases that she cites, and explain how these cases have changed the field of family law?

Q2. Rockquemore and Henderson Reading: Interracial Families in Post-Civil Rights America

Kerry Ann Rockquemore and Loren Henderson examine the history of interracial marriage from the Civil War to Civil Rights. Based on this reading, complete the following:

• Identify the six components of "racial literacy" and explain how it helps white partners to understand and resist racists’ attitudes towards their interracial relationship?


• Describe Heather Dalmage’s concept of “border patrolling” and explain how it manifests differently by race and gender in interracial relationships?