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Discuss some of the beliefs of the mental patients' liberation movement.

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The welfare rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s helped welfare recipients feel that their job as mothers deserved society's respect and recompense.

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As welfare and other safety net programs were cut back, the criminal justice system has expanded.

More women are behind bars today than at any other point in U.S. history due to mandatory sentencing for drug offenses.

Charles Murray believes that the most serious social problem today is

After basketball star Magic Johnson and tennis champion Arthur Ashe admitted that they were HIV positive or had contracted AIDS, the media was less sympathetic in its discussion of the disease.

Why does the National Organization for Women (NOW) maintain that the Personal Responsibility Act is an attack on women?

Discuss the findings of the study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) about how the media contributed to stereotyping of welfare recipients?

The media consulted research, advocacy groups, and welfare recipients frequently when they presented information on welfare.

What philosophy of social welfare believes that all citizens should have help as a social right?

Describe how welfare provides a good example of the cycles of reform using the theory of Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward.

Discuss the philosophy of Social Darwinism.

Discuss how the discriminatory classification of people as "deserving" versus "undeserving" has impacted what kinds of social service programs are likely to be implemented?

What are some of the things that help to reduce teen pregnancy?

Deinstitutionalization was a large-scale reform movement that.

Why are so many mentally ill patients placed in nursing homes?

Name some of the achievements of the welfare rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s

The designers of the War on Poverty criticized social work for being out of touch with poor people.

The child-saving movement led to the development of children's institutions, foster care, and the juvenile court.

When does a particular kind of personal or social behavior become defined as a "social problem"?