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The right to be loved / S. Matthew Liao.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liao, S. Matthew, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's rights--Philosophy.
- Children's rights.
- Children--Philosophy.
- Children.
- Human rights--Philosophy.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Many international declarations claim that children have a right to be loved, but some see this as empty rhetoric. S. Matthew Liao defends the existence of this right by offering a novel justification for it and by detailing the nature and distribution of the duty to love children.
- Contents:
- Can children have rights?
- Human rights as fundamental conditions for a good life
- Being loved as a fundamental condition for children
- The possibility of a duty to love
- The duty to love : who has it and to what extent?
- Regulating biological parenting : the problem of possibly inadequate parents
- Children without adequate parents and the duty to adopt.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-049338-0
- 0-19-023485-7
- 0-19-023484-9
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