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Having and Raising Children: Unconventional Families, Hard Choices, and the Social Good

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As the term "family values" achieves prominence in the rhetoric of political debate, the social issues at the heart of today's political controversies deserve to be studied in depth. This volume brings together a group of philosophers, political scientists, and legal scholars to explore a wide range of specific topics dealing with the legal, ethical, and political dimensions of familial relationships. Topics addressed include the rights of unwed fathers, the nature of children's autonomy, children's rights to divorce their parents, parental rights with respect to medical treatment and religious education of children, surrogate parenting, same-sex parenting, and single-parent families. Collectively, the essays point out that many contemporary issues pertaining to the having and raising of children pose genuinely hard choices for public policy makers, for those who make and enforce the laws, and for citizens who would like to engage in informed and critical democratic debate on these issues.

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Contributors from the fields of law, philosophy, and political science discuss the less traditional permutations of the parent-child relationship at the heart of current moral, social, and political debates over family values. Eleven essays favor the liberal side of such controversial policy issues as: unwed fathers' rights; parental claims in light of new reproductive technologies; whether Heather can indeed have two mommies; whether children should be able to divorce their parents; and parental religious freedom rights in medical decision-making.
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As the term "family values" achieves prominence in the rhetoric of political debate, the social issues at the heart of today's political controversies deserve to be studied in depth. This volume brings together a group of philosophers, political scientists, and legal scholars to explore a wide range of specific topics dealing with the legal, ethical, and political dimensions of familial relationships.<P>Topics addressed include the rights of unwed fathers, the nature of children's autonomy, children's rights to divorce their parents, parental rights with respect to medical treatment and religious education of children, surrogate parenting, same-sex parenting, and single-parent families. Collectively, the essays point out that many contemporary issues pertaining to the having and raising of children pose genuinely hard choices for public policy makers, for those who make and enforce the laws, and for citizens who would like to engage in informed and critical democratic debate on these issues.
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About the Author

Julia J. Bartkowiak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clarion University in Pennsylvania.

Uma Narayan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College. She is the author of Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism (1997), which won the 1998 Victoria Schuck award of the American Political Science Association, and co-editor (with Mary Lyndon Shanley) of Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives (Penn State, 1997), which received an honorable mention for the same award.

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ISBN:
9780271018867
Editor:
Bartkowiak, Julia
Editor:
Narayan, Uma
Editor:
Bartkowiak, Julia
Editor:
Narayan, Uma
Author:
Narayan, Uma
Author:
Bartkowiak, Julia
Author:
Bartkowiak, Julia J.
Publisher:
Penn State University Press
Subject:
Parenting
Subject:
Family
Subject:
Parenting - General
Subject:
Government - U.S. Government
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Public Policy - General
Subject:
Children's rights
Subject:
Politics-United States Politics
Subject:
Politics - General
Subject:
Having and Raising Children
Subject:
Unconventional Families
Subject:
Hard Choices
Subject:
and the Social Good
Subject:
Uma Narayan
Subject:
Julia J. Bartkowiak
Subject:
0-271-01886-0
Subject:
0-271-01887-9
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Political science
Subject:
family values
Subject:
Rhetoric
Subject:
political debate
Subject:
Philosophers
Subject:
Political scientists
Subject:
Legal scholars
Subject:
Ethical
Subject:
political dimensions
Subject:
familial relationships
Subject:
unwed fathers
Subject:
children s autonomy
Subject:
divorce parents
Subject:
Parental rights
Subject:
medical treatment
Subject:
Religious education
Subject:
surrogate parenting
Subject:
same-sex parenting
Subject:
Single-parent families
Subject:
public policy makers
Copyright:
1999
Edition Description:
Library binding
Publication Date:
19990431
Binding:
LIBRARY BOUND
Language:
English
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in 1.062 oz
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"Synopsis" by , As the term "family values" achieves prominence in the rhetoric of political debate, the social issues at the heart of today's political controversies deserve to be studied in depth. This volume brings together a group of philosophers, political scientists, and legal scholars to explore a wide range of specific topics dealing with the legal, ethical, and political dimensions of familial relationships.<P>Topics addressed include the rights of unwed fathers, the nature of children's autonomy, children's rights to divorce their parents, parental rights with respect to medical treatment and religious education of children, surrogate parenting, same-sex parenting, and single-parent families. Collectively, the essays point out that many contemporary issues pertaining to the having and raising of children pose genuinely hard choices for public policy makers, for those who make and enforce the laws, and for citizens who would like to engage in informed and critical democratic debate on these issues.
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