Choosing Children

Author : Jonathan Glover
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191037117
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing Children written by Jonathan Glover and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progress in genetic and reproductive technology now offers us the possibility of choosing what kinds of children we do and don't have. Should we welcome this power, or should we fear its implications? There is no ethical question more urgent than this: we may be at a turning-point in the history of humanity. The renowned moral philosopher and best-selling author Jonathan Glover shows us how we might try to answer this question, and other provoking and disturbing questions to which it leads. Surely parents owe it to their children to give them the best life they can? Increasingly we are able to reduce the number of babies born with disabilities and disorders. But there is a powerful new challenge to conventional thinking about the desirability of doing so: this comes from the voices of those who have these conditions. They call into question the very definition of disability. How do we justify trying to avoid bringing people like them into being? In 2002 a deaf couple used sperm donated by a friend with hereditary deafness to have a deaf baby: they took the view that deafness is not a disability, but a difference. Starting with the issues raised by this case, Jonathan Glover examines the emotive idea of 'eugenics', and the ethics of attempting to enhance people, for non-medical reasons, by means of genetic choices. Should parents be free, not only to have children free from disabilities, but to choose, for instance, the colour of their eyes or hair? This is no longer a distant prospect, but an existing power which we cannot wish away. What impact will such interventions have, both on the individuals concerned and on society as a whole? Should we try to make general improvements to the genetic make-up of human beings? Is there a central core of human nature with which we must not interfere? This beautifully clear book is written for anyone who cares about the rights and wrongs of parents' choices for their children, anyone who is concerned about our human future. Glover handles these uncomfortable questions in a controversial but always humane and sympathetic manner.

Author : Simon Reader
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319598643
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Choosing Children written by Simon Reader and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction. Against conceptions of Procreative Beneficence that trade on a disregard for the gifts of maternal bodies, it seeks to recover a thought of maternal giving and a more hospitable ethic of generational beneficence. Exploring themes of responsibility, gift and natality, the book refigures the experience of reproduction as the site of an ethical response to future generations, where refusal to choose one’s children is one virtuous response. The book will appeal to anyone with an interest in reproductive ethics, feminist thought and those seeking principled grounds for resisting the technologies of choosing children.

Author : Stephen Wilkinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191572713
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing Tomorrow's Children written by Stephen Wilkinson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their future children? And is there something morally wrong with parents who wish to do this? Choosing Tomorrow's Children provides answers to these (and related) questions. In particular, the book looks at issues raised by selective reproduction, the practice of choosing between different possible future persons by selecting or deselecting (for example) embryos, eggs, and sperm. Wilkinson offers answers to questions including the following. Do children have a 'right to an open future' and, if they do, what moral constraints does this place upon selective reproduction? Should parents be allowed to choose their future children's sex? Should we 'screen out' as much disease and disability as possible before birth, or would that be an objectionable form of eugenics? Is it acceptable to create or select a future person in order to provide lifesaving tissue for an existing relative? Is there a moral difference between selecting to avoid disease and selecting to produce an 'enhanced' child? Should we allow deaf parents to use reproductive technologies to ensure that they have a deaf child?

Author : Ruth Birnbaum
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843109875
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing a School for a Child with Special Needs written by Ruth Birnbaum and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From drawing up a list of possibilities and setting up a school visit, to asking the right questions and recording your opinions in order to make an informed decision, Choosing a School for a Child with Special Needs will guide you through this complex and stressful process with confidence and ease.

Author : Winifred Chinwendu Nweke
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460240367
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Choosing Your Children’s Schools written by Winifred Chinwendu Nweke and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to Choosing Your Children’s Schools & Monitoring Their School Experiences is a must read for all current and prospective parents, ideally before their children reach school age. It will help them plan ahead to ensure successful educational experience for their children. The first part of the book draws attention to various factors parents should, but do not always, consider that affect their children’s education. For example, what school is best for my child: Public or private; Charter, County or City school? Where you buy a home may take these choices out of your hands! The book challenges parents to use readily available information in print and on the internet, regarding school academic history, location, resources, curriculum and extra-curricular offerings, to plan ahead. It encourages parents to make deliberate choices that would position their children in the neighborhoods that would place them in the best schools. The second part of the book argues for, and illustrates, why parents should closely monitor their children’s experiences from pre-school through high school, even in the best of schools. The book concludes with suggestions on various ways parents can forge effective partnerships with the school/teacher to facilitate a successful experience for their children/ward.

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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2J/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing a school for your child written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Klenk
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428925317
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing a school for your child. written by Jack Klenk and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sheena Iyengar
Publisher : Twelve
ISBN 13 : 0446558710
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Choosing written by Sheena Iyengar and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day we make choices. Coke or Pepsi? Save or spend? Stay or go? Whether mundane or life-altering, these choices define us and shape our lives. Sheena Iyengar asks the difficult questions about how and why we choose: Is the desire for choice innate or bound by culture? Why do we sometimes choose against our best interests? How much control do we really have over what we choose? Sheena Iyengar's award-winning research reveals that the answers are surprising and profound. In our world of shifting political and cultural forces, technological revolution, and interconnected commerce, our decisions have far-reaching consequences. Use The Art of Choosing as your companion and guide for the many challenges ahead.

Author : Mikki Morrissette
Publisher : Be-Mondo Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0977204200
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing Single Motherhood written by Mikki Morrissette and published by Be-Mondo Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive resource book available for women who have chosen, or are thinking of choosing, single motherhood. Based on extensive research, advice from child experts and family therapists, and conversations with more than one hundred ?thinkers? and single mothers, this book funnels twenty-five years of hindsight into up-to-date insight on all aspects of the Choice Motherhood movement. From how to answer a child's ?daddy? questions to the pros and cons of using a known donor to how the children of pioneering Choice Moms feel about the lifestyle, this book is the one resource needed by every woman who makes this decision.

Author : Nicholas Foskett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134572565
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choosing Futures written by Nicholas Foskett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is becoming more competitive - choice in education is now a key issue. This book will help parents, schools, colleges, universities and policy makers understand how education and training markets work. Choosing Futures offers a wide ranging perspective on how young people, and their parents, make choices as they travel through a lifetime of education and training. The authors challenge traditional views of how choices are made of primary school, secondary school, college, university and career, which assume that choices are rational and objective. Instead this book reveals how choices depend upon a range of factors: *young people's personal experiences *individual and family histories *perceptions of education and careers. The book compares choice for 5 to 11 year olds, and for 16 and 18 year olds; drawing out models of the decision making process, and at the same time the consequences on schools, colleges and individuals of 'enhanced choice'.