Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues

Jaime Ahlberg (Editor), Michael Cholbi (Editor)

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages284
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9781315465531, 9781315465524
ISBN (Print)9781138206229
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Publication statusPublished - 2017

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  • How procreation generates parental rights and obligations

    Cholbi, M., 2017, Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues. Ahlberg, J. & Cholbi, M. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Routledge, p. 15-36 22 p.

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  • Introduction

    Ahlberg, J. & Cholbi, M., 2017, Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues. Ahlberg, J. & Cholbi, M. (eds.). 1 ed. New York: Taylor & Francis, p. 1-14 14 p.

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