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Aug 20, 2012 · In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more careful justification and reasoning than the choice ...
Her focus on moral rather than legal rights, and she distinguishes between a right to reproduce—in both positive and a negative sense—from a right not to reproduce (p. 22). The right to reproduce, its positive sense, includes not only assisted reproduction but also access to health services.
Sep 20, 2013 · Christine Overall offers a careful investigation into the moral issues surrounding the choice to have a child, demonstrating in the process how wide-ranging those issues really are. She never forgets that it is women who gestate and deliver babies—not machines, not society, and not gender-unspecified reproducers.
Karen StohrKennedy Institute of EthicsGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA Christine Overall’s book, Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate, begins with what would seem like an obvious point—that there are better and worse reasons to have a child. Given that that the well-being of a vulnerable and dependent creature hangs on the choice, it surely requires justification. And yet, […]
Jul 16, 2015 · One of Overall’s concerns is to clarify and to remind readers how the choice to have children can be a complex issue and can have a very deep moral meaning. In a clearly written and rigorously defended analysis, she presents a detailed exegesis of the various positions and perspectives on this topic from a philosophical and sociological point ...
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- 2015
Jan 20, 2012 · A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified -- and if so, how. In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be ...
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Exploring the nature of the biological parent-child relationship—which is not only genetic but also psychological, physical, intellectual, and moral—she argues that the formation of that relationship is the best possible reason for choosing to have a child.
