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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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- Christine Overall
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 ...
- Susanna Maria Taraschi
- susanna.taraschi@unicatt.it
- 2015
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 ...
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.
Sep 20, 2013 · 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.
- Christine Overall
- September 20, 2013
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.
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Feb 3, 2012 · Arguing that the choice to have children is not just a prudential or pragmatic decision but one with ethical repercussions, Overall offers a wide-ranging exploration of how we might think systematically and deeply about this fundamental aspect of human life.
