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Parental Obligations and Bioethics
The Duties of a Creator
Routledge Annals of Bioethics Series
Author: Prusak Bernard G.
Language: EnglishSubjects for Parental Obligations and Bioethics:
Keywords
philosophy; ethics; Iltis; Cherry; adoption; child support; donation; gamete; surrogacy; genetic; rights; Emancipated Foster Youth; Parental Obligations; Good Life; Full Moral Standing; Loving Parent Child Relationship; Anticipatory Autonomy Rights; Gamete Providers; Gamete Donation; Causal Account; Commercial Surrogacy; Thomson’s Defense; Withholding Life Support; Gestational Surrogates; Genetic Enhancement; Non-identity Problem; Morally Permissible; Unwilling Fathers; Intended Parents; Equal Life Chances; Donor Offspring; Gestational Surrogacy; Filial Obligations; Thomson’s Argument; Voluntarist Account; Relevant Medical Information
Publication date: 10-2013
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 11-2016
· 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
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This book examines the question of what parental obligations procreators incur by bringing children into being. Prusak argues that parents, as procreators, have obligations regarding future children that constrain the liberty of would-be parents to do as they wish. Moreover, these obligations go beyond simply respecting a child?s rights. He addresses in turn the ethics of adoption, child support, gamete donation, surrogacy, prenatal genetic enhancement, and public responsibility for children.
Introduction 1. What Are Parents For? A Thought Experiment 2. The Costs of Procreation 3. Abortion and the Grounds of Parental Obligations 4. Whose Child? 5. Good Enough Parenting? The Child’s Right to an Open Future and the Ethics of Prenatal Genetic Enhancement 6. Back from the Future: Paying for the Priceless Child
Bernard G. Prusak is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the McGowan Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility at King’s College, USA.