Evaluating parental power : an exercise in pluralist political theory / Allyn Fives.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fives, Allyn, author.

Series:

Social and political power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parent and child.

Civics.

Pluralism.

Parenting.

Child rearing.

Physical Description:

xv, 268 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Summary:

When and for what reasons does parents' power have legitimacy? And how do we rationally justify such normative evaluations? These are the questions posed in this book. In doing so, a number of specific case studies are examined in detail and an argument is made for a pluralist approach both to the conceptualisation of power and to its normative evaluation.

Contents:

Introduction: philosophy, power, and parents

Part I. Paternalism and its limits

Paternalism

Caretaker or liberator?

Part II. Conceptual and methodological issues

Moral dilemmas

Children's agency

Parental power

Normative legitimacy

Part III. The moral legitimacy of parental power

Legitimacy in the political domain and in the family

Licensing, monitoring, and training parents

Children and the provision of informed consent

Sharing lives, shaping values, and voluntary civic education

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.

ISBN:

9781784994327

1784994324

OCLC:

967974190