The Moral Foundations Of Parenthood

Author : Joseph Millum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190695439
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Foundations of Parenthood written by Joseph Millum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael W. Austin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317162528
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conceptions of Parenthood written by Michael W. Austin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Joseph Millum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190695460
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Parenthood written by Joseph Millum and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a philosophical account of the foundations of moral parenthood. It explains how parental rights and responsibilities are acquired, what those rights and responsibilities consist in, and how parents should make decisions for their children. In doing so, it provides a set of frameworks to help solve pressing ethical dilemmas relating to parents and children.

Author : Jaime Ahlberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315465515
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights written by Jaime Ahlberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael W. Austin
Publisher : Kregel Academic
ISBN 13 : 0825424259
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wise Stewards written by Michael W. Austin and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplemental text for family and marriage courses; resource for pastors and marriage counselors; parents

Author : Cristina L. H. Traina
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226811387
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erotic Attunement written by Cristina L. H. Traina and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Archard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198748151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Procreation and Parenthood written by David Archard and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016-01-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven essays on some of the main ethical issues raised by producing and rearing children.

Author : Jean Kazez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190652624
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Parent written by Jean Kazez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming parents draws us into philosophical quandaries before our children have even been born. Why do most of us want to have children? Should we make new people, despite life's travails and our crowded world? Is adoptive parenthood just the same as biological parenthood? Once children arrive, the questions start to be a mix of the profound and the practical. Should we share our lifestyle with our children, no matter how unusual? Should we vaccinate and may we circumcise? Should we encourage gender differences? Tracing the arc of parenthood from the earliest days to the college years and beyond, Jean Kazez explores 18 questions for philosophical parents, applying the tools of philosophy and drawing on personal experience. The Philosophical Parent offers a novel account of the parent-child relationship and uses it to tackle a variety of parenting puzzles, but more than that, Kazez celebrates both having children and philosophical reflection. Her book provides a challenging but cheerful companion for thoughtful parents and parents-to-be.

Author : Norvin Richards
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199731748
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Parenthood written by Norvin Richards and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : H. Tristram Engelhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195057368
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Bioethics written by H. Tristram Engelhardt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, thoroughly recast Second Edition has been acclaimed as "the most important book written since the beginning of that strange project called bioethics" (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University). Its philosophical exploration of the foundations of secular bioethics has been substantially expanded. The book challenges the values of much of contemporary bioethics and health care policy by confronting their failure to secure the moral norms they seek to apply. The nature of health and disease, the definition of death, the morality of abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, germline genetic engineering, triage decisions and distributive justice in health care are all addressed within an integrated reconsideration of bioethics as a whole. New material has been added regarding social justice, health care reform and environmental ethics. The very possibility and meaning of a secular bioethics are re-explored.