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Licensing Parents - Family, State, and Child Maltreatment (Paperback)
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Licensing Parents - Family, State, and Child Maltreatment (Paperback)
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In Licensing Parents, Michael McFall argues that political
structures, economics, education, racism, and sexism are secondary
in importance to the inequality caused by families, and that the
family plays the primary role in a child's acquisition of a sense
of justice. He demonstrates that examination of the family is
necessary in political philosophy and that informal structures
(families) and considerations (character formation) must be taken
seriously. McFall advocates a threshold that should be accepted by
all political philosophers: children should not be severely abused
or neglected because child maltreatment often causes deep and
irreparable individual and societal harm. The implications of this
threshold are revolutionary, but this is not recognized fully
because no philosophical book has systematically considered the
ethical or political ramifications of child maltreatment. By
exposing a tension between the rights of children and adults,
McFall reveals pervasive ageism; parental rights usually trump
children's rights, and this is often justified because children are
not fully autonomous. Yet parental rights should not always trump
children's rights. Ethics and political philosophy are not only
about rights, but also about duties_especially when considering
potential parents who are unable or unwilling to provide minimally
decent nurturance. While contemporary political philosophy focuses
on adult rights, McFall examines systems whereby the interests and
rights of children and parents are better balanced. This entails
exploring when parental rights are defeasible and defending the
ethics of licensing parents, whereby some people are precluded from
rearing children. He argues that, if a sense of justice is largely
developed in childhood, parents directly influence the character of
future generations of adults in political society. A completely
stable and well-ordered society needs stable and psychologically
healthy citizens in addition to just laws, and McFall demonstrates
how parental love and healthy families can help achieve this.
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