Tag Archives: dilemmas

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas, Internal Dynamics of Families

A Home of Our Own

Title: A Home of Our Own

Date: 1993

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Keywords: family relationships, dilemmas

Rating: PG

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while facing all kinds of difficulties during their journey.

Places to view: Amazon Video, Itunes

Contributor: Anonymous

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas, Health and Human Sexuality, Interpersonal Relationships

Thirtysomething

Title: Thirtysomething

Date: 1989

Media type: Television

Format: Episode

TV Season-Episode: New Baby: S3-E4

Category: Human Sexuality and Health, Ethical Issues and Dilemmas, Interpersonal Relationships

Keywords: reproductive health, development stage, dilemmas

Rating: NR

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Susannah gives birth to a baby girl after struggling with many fears.

Places to view: Hulu

Contributor: Anonymous

Ethical Issues and Dilemmas, Family Law and Policies, Internal Dynamics of Families

This American Life

Title: This American Life

Date: 2008

Media type: Podcast

Format: Complete

TV Season-Episode: Switched-at-Birth

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Family Law and Policies, Ethical Issues and Delimmas

Keywords: response to crises, legal conflict, dilemmas

Rating: NR

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: 2 Babies are switched at birth in a hospital in Wisconsin in 1951 and are not made aware of it for 43 years. The mother of one of the switched babies knew the day she brought the baby home that she had the wrong baby but kept it secret for all those years. An interview and analysis of the incident follows, raising many ethical and emotional dilemmas.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What do you feel about the mother who kept it secret for 43 years? What conclusions do you draw about her actions? How does this make you perceive her? What are your feelings on the ethics of this situation? What role do you think genetics played in the lives of these girls and their development?

Places to view: Hulu

Contributor: Ian Brunzell-Looney