Family values : the ethics of parent-child relationships / Harry Brighouse, Adam Swift.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brighouse, Harry, author.

Swift, Adam, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Values.

Families.

Families--Moral and ethical aspects.

Parent and child.

Interpersonal relations.

Parenting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 217 pages)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The family is hotly contested ideological terrain. Some defend the traditional two-parent heterosexual family while others welcome its demise. Opinions vary about how much control parents should have over their children's upbringing. Family Values provides a major new theoretical account of the morality and politics of the family, telling us why the family is valuable, who has the right to parent, and what rights parents should-and should not-have over their children. Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift argue that parent-child relationships produce the "familial relationship goods" that people need to flourish. Children's healthy development depends on intimate relationships with authoritative adults, while the distinctive joys and challenges of parenting are part of a fulfilling life for adults. Yet the relationships that make these goods possible have little to do with biology, and do not require the extensive rights that parents currently enjoy. Challenging some of our most commonly held beliefs about the family, Brighouse and Swift explain why a child's interest in autonomy severely limits parents' right to shape their children's values, and why parents have no fundamental right to confer wealth or advantage on their children. Family Values reaffirms the vital importance of the family as a social institution while challenging its role in the reproduction of social inequality and carefully balancing the interests of parents and children."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

pt. One: Liberty, Equality, Family

Introduction

Liberalism and the Family

Equality and the Family

pt. Two: Justifying the Family

Introduction

Children

Adults

pt. Three: Parents' Rights

Conferring Advantage

Shaping Values

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691173733

0691173737

9781400852543 (electronic book)

1400852544

OCLC:

884645726