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Childhood looms large in our understanding of human life, as a
phase through which all adults have passed. Childhood is
foundational to the development of selfhood, the formation of
interests, values and skills and to the lifespan as a whole.
Understanding what it is like to be a child, and what differences
childhood makes, are thus essential for any broader understanding
of the human condition. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of
Childhood and Children is an outstanding reference source for the
key topics, problems and debates in this crucial and exciting field
and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty
chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is
divided into five parts: * Being a child * Childhood and moral
status * Parents and children * Children in society * Children and
the state. Questions covered include: What is a child? Is childhood
a uniquely valuable state, and if so why? Can we generalize about
the goods of childhood? What rights do children have, and are they
different from adults' rights? What (if anything) gives people a
right to parent? What role, if any, ought biology to play in
determining who has the right to parent a particular child? What
kind of rights can parents legitimately exercise over their
children? What roles do relationships with siblings and friends
play in the shaping of childhoods? How should we think about
sexuality and disability in childhood, and about racialised
children? How should society manage the education of children? How
are children's lives affected by being taken into social care? The
Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children is
essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of
childhood, political philosophy and ethics as well as those in
related disciplines such as education, psychology, sociology,
social policy, law, social work, youth work, neuroscience and
anthropology.
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Debating Surrogacy
Anca Gheaus, Christine Straehle
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R674
Discovery Miles 6 740
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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Surrogacy is the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth
to a child for another would-be parent. The practice raises several
ethical questions, such as the commodification of the surrogate and
of the baby, and the exploitation of the surrogate, issues which
have been extensively debated. This book offers a fresh take on
surrogacy, by concentrating on questions which bear on its
justifiability: Is providing gestational services a permissible way
of employing a woman's body? Indeed, is it a legitimate form of
work? Are the children born out of surrogacy in any way wronged by
surrogacy agreements? In the first part of the book, Christine
Straehle proposes an account of surrogacy work as legitimate work
for women, as a way to realize certain goals in women's lives
through the fruit of their labour. She defends a right to become a
surrogate as necessary to protect women's autonomy. Anca Gheaus
criticises surrogacy by arguing that it always wrongs
children—whether or not it also harms them—by disrespecting
them; therefore, gestational services are impermissible. In the
second part, Straehle responds to Gheaus, questioning that children
are wronged by the practice of surrogacy. Instead, she defends an
intentional model of parental rights, which indicates that having a
child through surrogacy should count as a ground to assign parental
rights. In her response, Gheaus objects that Straehle's view fails
to properly account for the interests of either surrogates or
children. However, she accepts that women may gestate without the
intention to have custody over the newborn, and is therefore open
to some kind of post-surrogacy practice that would radically
depart, in the allocation of legal parenthood, from any historical
or currently proposed form of surrogacy.
Childhood looms large in our understanding of human life, as a
phase through which all adults have passed. Childhood is
foundational to the development of selfhood, the formation of
interests, values and skills and to the lifespan as a whole.
Understanding what it is like to be a child, and what differences
childhood makes, are thus essential for any broader understanding
of the human condition. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of
Childhood and Children is an outstanding reference source for the
key topics, problems and debates in this crucial and exciting field
and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty
chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is
divided into five parts: * Being a child * Childhood and moral
status * Parents and children * Children in society * Children and
the state. Questions covered include: What is a child? Is childhood
a uniquely valuable state, and if so why? Can we generalize about
the goods of childhood? What rights do children have, and are they
different from adults' rights? What (if anything) gives people a
right to parent? What role, if any, ought biology to play in
determining who has the right to parent a particular child? What
kind of rights can parents legitimately exercise over their
children? What roles do relationships with siblings and friends
play in the shaping of childhoods? How should we think about
sexuality and disability in childhood, and about racialised
children? How should society manage the education of children? How
are children's lives affected by being taken into social care? The
Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children is
essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of
childhood, political philosophy and ethics as well as those in
related disciplines such as education, psychology, sociology,
social policy, law, social work, youth work, neuroscience and
anthropology.
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