Who Should Decide?

Duration: 11

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1958

Creator: Coronet Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses a family setting with two teenage children who find that their own decisions and desires freuently conflict with those of their parents, to illustrate the most typical problems faced by teenagers. Raises questions concerning areas and degree of parental influence, providing a basis for discussion. Collaborator: Reuben Hill., Presents a dramatization about a victim of spina bifida who discovers that her unborn child has the same disease and will, at the very least, be confined to a wheelchair. She and her husband must decide quickly whether to terminate her pregnancy during the second trimester. Designed to stimulate discussion of ethical, legal, and economic questions raised by rapid advances in modern science.

Complete Record: Uses a family setting with two teenage children who find that their own decisions and desires freuently conflict with those of their parents, to illustrate the most typical problems faced by teenagers. Raises questions concerning areas and degree of parental influence, providing a basis for discussion. Collaborator: Reuben Hill., Presents a dramatization about a victim of spina bifida who discovers that her unborn child has the same disease and will, at the very least, be confined to a wheelchair. She and her husband must decide quickly whether to terminate her pregnancy during the second trimester. Designed to stimulate discussion of ethical, legal, and economic questions raised by rapid advances in modern science.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.