Learning Objectives

14.1 Discuss five key ideas presented throughout this book for understanding marriages and families.

14.2 Summarize contemporary trends in diversity in the United States and abroad.

14.3 Explain the positive and negative effects of modern trends in globalization.

14.4 Discuss the arguments in favor of developed nations having a responsibility to developing nations and/or poor people within their own borders.

14.5 Describe the controversies surrounding immigration, especially in the United States.