Journal article
Parental partiality and future children
- Abstract:
- Prospective parents are sometimes partial towards their future children, engaging in what I call ‘pre-parental partiality’. Common sense morality is as permissive of pre-parental partiality as it is of ordinary parental partiality—partiality towards one’s existing children. But I argue that pre-parental partiality is harder to justify: love-based justifications for ordinary parental partiality typically provide weaker reasons in support of pre-parental partiality than in support of parental partiality, and other candidate justifications fail to make up for this normative deficit.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.26556/jesp.v15i1.351
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- Publisher:
- University of Southern California
- Journal:
- Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy More from this journal
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 1-18
- Publication date:
- 2019-03-05
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-12-12
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1559-3061
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pubs:954441
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954441
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- Copyright holder:
- Douglas, T
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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- © 2019 Author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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