The Ethics Of Parenthood

Author : Norvin Richards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199774269

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The Ethics of Parenthood by Norvin Richards Pdf

In The Ethics of Parenthood Norvin Richards explores the moral relationship between parents and children from slightly before the cradle to slightly before the grave. Richards maintains that biological parents do ordinarily have a right to raise their children, not as a property right but as an instance of our general right to continue whatever we have begun. The contention is that creating a child is a first act of parenthood, hence it ordinarily carries a right to continue as parent to that child. Implications are drawn for a wide range of cases, including those of Baby Jessica and Baby Richard, prenatal abandonment, babies switched at birth and sent home with the wrong parents, and families separated by war or natural disaster. A second contention is that children have a claim of their own to have their autonomy respected, and that this claim is stronger the better the grounds for believing that what the child's actions express is a self of the child's own. A final set of chapters concern parents and their grown children. Views are offered about what duties parents have at this stage of life, about what is required in order to treat grown children as adults, and about what obligations grown children have to their parents. In the final chapter Richards discusses the contention that parents sometimes have an obligation to die rather than permit their children to make the sacrifices needed to keep them alive, arguing that a leading view about this undervalues both love and autonomy.

Author : Michael W. Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317162520

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Conceptions of Parenthood by Michael W. Austin Pdf

Our parents often have a significant impact on the content of our beliefs, the values we hold, and the goals we pursue and becoming a parent can also have a similar impact on our lives. In Conceptions of Parenthood Michael Austin provides a rigorous and accessible philosophical analysis of the numerous and distinct conceptions of parenthood. Issues considered are the nature and justification of parental rights, the sources of parental obligations, the value of autonomy, and the moral obligations and tensions present within interpersonal relationships. Austin rejects the 'proprietarian', 'best interests of the child', and 'biological' conceptions of parenthood as failing to generate parental rights and obligations but considers more sympathetically the 'custodial relationship', 'consent', and 'causal' conceptions of parenthood and ultimately defends a 'stewardship' conception. Finally Austin explores the 'stewardship' view for practical and moral questions related to family life and social policy regarding the family, such as the education of children, the religious upbringing of children and state licensing of parents.

Author : David Archard,David Benatar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0198748159

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Procreation and Parenthood by David Archard,David Benatar Pdf

Seven essays on some of the main ethical issues raised by producing and rearing children.

Author : Joseph Millum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780190695439

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The Moral Foundations of Parenthood by Joseph Millum Pdf

Most people believe that parents have moral rights and responsibilities regarding their children. These rights and responsibilities undergird the nuclear family and are essential to the flourishing of its members. However, their basis and contents are hotly contested. Do a child's genetic parents have a right to parent her? The importance of genetic ties is affirmed by many people's gut responses, everyday talk, and many court decisions, but the moral justification for tying parenthood rights to genetics is unclear. Parents are routinely permitted to make far-reaching decisions about their children's medical care, education, religious practice, and even how to punish them. When can parental rights be limited by the interests of the child or society? Matters are no more settled when it comes to parental responsibilities. It is commonly thought that if a man conceives a child through voluntary sexual intercourse he acquires parental responsibilities, even if he took every precaution against conception. On the other hand, sperm donors are widely-though not universally-thought to have no responsibilities towards their progeny. What is the basis for these disparate judgments? Parents are expected to do a lot for their children as they raise them. But there are surely limits. Sometimes parents have to balance the needs of multiple family members or just want to have time for themselves. What is the extent of their parental responsibilities? In The Moral Foundations of Parenthood, Joseph Millum provides a philosophical account of moral parenthood. He explains how parental rights and responsibilities are acquired, what those rights and responsibilities consist in, and how parents should go about making decisions on behalf of their children. In doing so, he provides a set of frameworks to help solve pressing ethical dilemmas relating to parents and children.

Author : Jaime Ahlberg,Michael Cholbi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315465517

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Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights by Jaime Ahlberg,Michael Cholbi Pdf

Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights explores important issues at the nexus of two burgeoning areas within moral and social philosophy: procreative ethics and parental rights. Surprisingly, there has been comparatively little scholarly engagement across these subdisciplinary boundaries, despite the fact that parental rights are paradigmatically ascribed to individuals responsible for procreating particular children. This collection thus aims to bring expert practitioners from these literatures into fruitful and innovative dialogue around questions at the intersection of procreation and parenthood. Among these questions are: Must individuals be found competent in order to have the right to procreate or to parent? What, if anything, can justify parents' special authority over, or special obligations toward, their children, particularly children they biologically procreate? How is the relationship between the right to procreate and the right to parent best understood? How ought liberal societies understand the parent-child relationship and the rights and claims it gives rise to? A distinguishing feature of the collection is that several of its chapters address these issues by drawing on philosophical work in the realm of education, one of the most controversial areas in the ethics of parenthood. This book represents a distinctive synthesis of topics and literatures likely to appeal to scholars and advanced students working across a wide range of disciplines.

Author : Norvin Richards
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9780199731749

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The Ethics of Parenthood by Norvin Richards Pdf

Introduction -- The rights of biological parents -- Who has parent rights? -- Whose child is this? -- Abuse, neglect, and the state -- The autonomy of children -- Raising a child -- Moral education -- Bad behavior -- Loving one another -- Having grown children -- Filial obligations -- The graceful exit.

Author : Jeffrey Blustein
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002508724

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Parents and Children by Jeffrey Blustein Pdf

Author : Stefan Ramaekers,Judith Suissa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400722514

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The Claims of Parenting by Stefan Ramaekers,Judith Suissa Pdf

Many sociological, historical and cultural stories can be and have already been told about why it is that parents in post-industrial, western societies face an often overwhelming array of advice on how to bring up their children. At the same time, there have been several philosophical treatments of the legal, moral and political issues surrounding issues of procreation, the rights of children and the duties of parents, as well as some philosophical accounts of the shifts in our underlying conceptualization of childhood and adult-child relationships. While this book partly builds on the insights of this literature, it is significantly different in that it offers a philosophically-informed discussion of the actual practical experience of being a parent, with its deliberations, judgements and dilemmas. In probing the ethical and conceptual questions suggested by the parent-child relationship, this unique volume demonstrates the irreducible philosophical richness of this relationship and thus provides an important counter-balance to the overly empirical and largely psychological focus of a great deal of “parenting” literature. Unlike other analytic work on the parent-child relationship and the educational role of parents, this work draws on first-person accounts of the day-to-day experience of being a parent in order to explore the ethical and epistemological aspects of this experience. In so doing it exposes the limitations of some of the languages within which contemporary “parenting” is conceptualized and discussed, and opens up a space for thinking about childrearing and the parent-child relationship beyond and other than in terms of the languages which dominate the ways in which we generally think about it today.

Author : Cristina L. H. Traina
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226811383

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Erotic Attunement by Cristina L. H. Traina Pdf

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children in nearly any context. This book probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection towards children and perverse exploitation of them.

Author : Harry Brighouse,Adam Swift
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691173733

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Family Values by Harry Brighouse,Adam Swift Pdf

The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opinions vary about how much control parents should have over their children's upbringing. Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the morality and politics of the family, telling us why the family is valuable, who has the right to parent, and what rights parents should—and should not—have over their children. Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift argue that parent-child relationships produce the "familial relationship goods" that people need to flourish. Children's healthy development depends on intimate relationships with authoritative adults, while the distinctive joys and challenges of parenting are part of a fulfilling life for adults. Yet the relationships that make these goods possible have little to do with biology, and do not require the extensive rights that parents currently enjoy. Challenging some of our most commonly held beliefs about the family, Brighouse and Swift explain why a child's interest in autonomy severely limits parents' right to shape their children's values, and why parents have no fundamental right to confer wealth or advantage on their children. Family Values reaffirms the vital importance of the family as a social institution while challenging its role in the reproduction of social inequality and carefully balancing the interests of parents and children.

Author : Paul Lauritzen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016929114

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Pursuing Parenthood by Paul Lauritzen Pdf

Begins by identifying the basic objections that have been raised to reproductive technology by the Catholic Church and others and shows why many of these criticisms are misplaced. This book argues that critics of reproductive technology have too frequently assumed that genetic connection is the sole basis of parental obligation.

Author : Thomas R. Frame
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0868409103

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Children on Demand by Thomas R. Frame Pdf

"This is a book that starts of by acknowledging the pain of infertility for many people and then examines the options for conceiving that have developed so rapidly since Louise Brown the first 'test tube baby' was born 30 years ago. Tom Frame argues that ethics, law and community desires haven't been able to keep up with technological advancement, and that this is a problem. He starts by looking at adoption, and includes details about his own experience as an adoptee. He writes about sperm and egg donors, asking whether it's fair that they be allowed to remain anonymous; he writes about IVF and surrogacy and finishes by writing about cases where women have asked to use the dead husbands' stored sperm to become pregnant. He looks at science, religion, philosophy, ethics but his starting point is always 'what's best for the child'. His view that the ideal family is a mother, a father and a child will create some controversy."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Laurence D. Houlgate
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Families
ISBN : 0534551572

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Morals, Marriage, and Parenthood by Laurence D. Houlgate Pdf

This ground-breaking text is the first anthology of essays entirely devoted to ethical problems in marriage and family relationships. This collection of classical and contemporary sources brings together a wide range of ethical issues including family ethics, children's rights, and parental responsibilities.

Author : Dominic Stoop
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9783319148571

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Preventing Age Related Fertility Loss by Dominic Stoop Pdf

This unique book provides expert advice on all the different aspects related to fertility preservation for age related infertility. Although, there is a lot of information available on the Internet and in books about fertility preservation for cancer treatment, little information is available for young women that are confronted with a ticking biological clock. While men have been able to cryopreserve sperm since the 1950s, women have only recently gained the opportunity to preserve their gametes through the egg vitrification technique. Therefore, many women confronted with a risk of imminent fertility loss, such as chemotherapy, are now freezing their oocytes instead of embryos. Successful oocyte cryopreservation offers them a reproductive autonomy independent of men. Moreover, it now enables single women to preserve their reproductive chances. The most important threat for female fertility is ovarian aging as it causes a progressive decline in the reproductive chances. The general trend to delay motherhood due to societal changes confronts many women and couples with a diminished fertility. This fertility problem can often not be cured by in vitro fertilization, which makes that an increasing number of women require oocyte donation as the treatment of last resort. In the last few years, fertility centres around the world have started to offer the opportunity cryopreserve oocytes to young, often highly educated, single women. This patient population is unique as compared to other patients in the fertility clinic as they perform a preventive treatment. They are neither confronted with infertility nor are they undergoing a treatment that might cause an imminent treat to their fertility.

Author : Rushworth M. Kidder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780470547625

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Good Kids, Tough Choices by Rushworth M. Kidder Pdf

A practical analysis and inspiring guide for teaching kids "ethical fitness" Parents are beginning to realize that deficiencies in ethics and character are becoming a big problem among our nation's children. According to the latest data, lying, cheating, and rampant insensitivity to other people are increasingly common. What can parents do? In this book, ethics expert Rushworth Kidder shows how to customize interventions to a child's age and temperament. He encourages parents not to give up, since what they do can always make a difference, regardless of how long or deep the bad habits of dishonesty may be. Encourages parents to intervene early and re-establish children on the right course Explores the keys to ethical behavior: honesty, responsibility, respect, fairness, and compassion All of Kidder's practical advice is based on the latest psychological and neuroscientific research about how kids develop character and learn what's right and wrong.