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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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Aug 20, 2012 · Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate. Christine Overall. MIT Press. January 2012. Find this book: This book addresses an ethical issue that has rarely been examined in depth. The assumption that having children is a right and proper – and indeed ‘natural — thing to do is rarely questioned.
In the concluding chapter she argues that the best reason for having a child is to have a parent-child relationship—to love the child because of who it is. Such a relationship, she claims, "gives a particular meaning to one's own life and to the life of the being that is created" (p. 217).
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.
Nov 10, 2013 · In the concluding chapter she argues that the best reason for having a child is to have a parent-child relationship—to love the child because of who it is. Such a relationship, she claims, “gives a particular meaning to one’s own life and to the life of the being that is created” (p. 217).
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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.
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Jan 20, 2012 · 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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