The Kinsey Scale

In the movie, Kinsey, it was obvious that society had a lack of knowledge about sex and about people’s sexual activities. Alfred Kinsey changed the way that people thought about sex. He did an important and monumental thing informing people and answering people’s questions about sex. At one point in the movie it showed Kinsey reading a script from the bible where boys were supposed to control their nocturnal emissions, a natural and uncontrollable act of puberty, or they would be looked down upon by God. A quote from the movie “it is the lord’s work to help youth fight and resist temptation.” I agree with the movie in that the more a behavior is prohibited the more strongly it becomes desired. (add more here)

The foster care system in Texas is broken and policies like SB-4 and HB-3859 continue to fracture the system even more. The high volume of children entering into the system and the substantial number of caseloads for social workers are exacerbated by the current policies. It is our job as policymakers and policy analysts to address this issue so that ALL the children of the Lone Star state have a better future. Throughout this memo, I will highlight the current condition of the foster care

As of September, 2011 in the United States over 400,540 children were in the foster care system. The Minnesota Department of Human Services, 2011) defines foster care as, ?A 24-hour substitute care for children placed away from their parents or guardians and for whom the State agency has placement and care responsibility.? Of the 400,540 children in foster care nationwide, 195,400 were Floridians. With the fifty social service programs nationwide, Florida is one of a very few states in the nation with statewide privatization of social services, for this study, with an emphasis on privatization of foster care. In the present paper, the privatization of foster care plays a significant role in the care and placement of Florida?s abused, neglected, and abandoned children. The major thrust of privatization of foster care was implemented under the administration of Governor Jeb Bush, a staunch political conservative. The purpose of privatization was to provide better foster care services to stake-holders, primarily to find permanent homes for foster children. The Bush administration was always trying to adhere to the conservative mantra of fiscal reduction as it pertained to social services

In the Chicago Tribune article titled “Florida’s puzzling case against gay adoptions” written by Steve Chapman argues that Florida’s government should give an opportunity to homosexual people to adopt children. Couple weeks ago the U.S Supreme Court hold out the policy which prevent gays and lesbians from adopting children in Florida. However, there a lot of side effects are generated by this resolution. Such as Steven Lofton, who has taken honor from the Children’s home society as an outstanding foster parent and dedicated himself to take care of the kids with HIV or AIDS full-time for the past decade. Despite how adequately suitable to serve as a foster parent, it didn’t change the state’s mind to view as an adoptive parent since he is a

4). In the scope of adoption, it is evident that child welfare agencies use the majority of their available resources for placing children in foster families, investigating child-abuse cases, and providing other family services. “As a consequence, they do not possess adequate additional resources for efficiently placing children in adoptive homes once they are available for adoption, depriving many children of the benefits a stable, permanent home provides” (Snell, 2000, p. 2). The current government operated child welfare system is detrimental to the children involved due to its inability to ensure their safety and

The aim of this study is to evaluate the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 2007. This act provides children waiting in foster care with permanent families through adoption. The states increased the number and proportion of adopted children that received adoption assistance because the child had a special need. The article goes over administrative data that indicates that states more diligently recorded the special needs of children as well as post adoption financial support and assistants. The paper reviews how some states found themselves in the contradictory position of promoting adoption while simultaneously cutting post- adoption support. In the next section of the article it outlines federal adoption incentives and funding for post- adoption

Kinsey’s rise was slow and steady. Mostly due to his diligent work on a topic that almost seemed forbidden to talk about at the time. A concept that was once attributed for just married couples. Many people at the time believed that sex was only for wedded couples, leaving no room for objection. People of the time scoffed at ideas such as premarital sex, homosexuality and other sexuality that appeared peculiar. Kinsey changed American culture and a created a media frenzy when he released his first work, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.” Which he then went on several interviews, discussions and panels to discuss sex. Kinsey was a Harvard-educated zoologist who enjoyed studying gull wasps it was not until he met his spunky yet witty wife, Clara “Mac” McMillen that he became interested in the idea of sex. While teaching and experimenting he realized that there was science evidence behind sex and behavior. When

Stolley, Kathy S. Statistics on Adoption in the United States. Vol. 3. Princeton U, 1993. Print. The

Kinsey spent most of his time researching and studying sex that he did not have time for his wife. He began having sexual affairs with children and experimented to deepen his studies and knowledge about sexual behaviors. “Kinsey's work has been instrumental in advancing acceptance of pornography, homosexuality, abortion, and condom-based sex

According to Kinsey, diverse sexuality is not simply a genetic makeup, but based on attraction (1948). Similar to Diamond's ideas of sexual fluidity, there is a broad scale of sexuality that exists within people. The Kinsey scale demonstrates sexual fluidity and its challenge, to heteronormativity by variation between exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual. Kinsey like Diamond shows that people engage in same sex practice because of personal desires and certain conditions. Without much thought, in the moment of sex the main priority is to release sexual tension. I remember watching a video in a psychology class called “Kinsey” at the University of California Santa Cruz. It was about how Kinsey devolved his sexual variation scale

Cooney, Doug. "Gay adoption." Florida Bar News 1 Oct. 2009: 2. Academic OneFile. Web. 7 Feb. 2013.

I do believe that sexuality research is important. As in any health and science field there needs to be reliable information. This information is attained through research. Without scientific facts, everything is then based on hear-say or opinions, no matter if they are actually true or not. There is just no proof. Research is able to show us an unbiased view of things and accurate data. It is able to correct societal misconceptions. Without correct information about sexuality, we are unable to efficiently and accurately educate our students. For example in class, we watched the Alfred Kinsey documentary. In it Dr. Kinsey ran into some issues with the lack of sex research. He had students coming to him and asking if their sexual behaviors were

Although some researchers had studied sexual behavior before Kinsey’s, his research in the early part of the 19th century on the male and female’s perception of sexual behavior as a pioneer approach. While teaching a newly formed curriculum on sex education, in Indiana, 1937; Kinsey decided additional research was necessary to clarify the definition of human sexuality. Using the survey approach, he was able to format the questions in such a way that over 17,000 people were comfortable in describing their sexual behaviors.

Homosexual and Transsexual marriage has emerged a wedge in the partisan gap. On June 26th, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage in all fifty states. As the laws have emerged, the rights of Gay and Lesbian parents have not advanced as rapidly. In jurisdictions where gay couples are not permitted to adopt, couples often decide one parent adopt or one parent conceives the child. The second parent then adopts the child by what is called second parent adoption. If the second parent doesn’t or cannot legal adopt the child they have no legal relationship with that child. This poses a problem if the child has fallen ill and needs a parent to make important life decisions or more commonly in break ups or divorce. If a separation occurs, it brings up other family court cases such as child custody and child support. If the parent has no legal relationship to the child, they in turn do not have any rights to child

On the other hand, in “Support for Homosexuals’ Civil Liberties”, the author states “traditional gender role attitudes and support for homosexuals’ civil liberties are found to negatively co-vary over time.” Religious attitudes differ in both their approaches to the roles of men and women in family settings and their approach towards homosexuality. The author explains that typical household is a male, who