{"product_id":"taking-responsibility-for-children-9781554580156","title":"Taking Responsibility for Children","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e What do we as a society, and as parents in particular, owe to our children? Each chapter in \u003ci\u003eTaking Responsibility for Children\u003c\/i\u003e offers part of an answer to that question. Although they vary in the approaches they take and the conclusions they draw, each contributor explores some aspect of the moral obligations owed to children by their caregivers. Some focus primarily on the responsibilities of parents, while others focus on the responsibilities of society and government. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e The essays reflect a mix of concern with the practical and the philosophical aspects of taking responsibility for children, addressing such topics as parental obligations, the rights and entitlements of children, the responsibility of the state, the role and nature of public education in a liberal society, the best ways to ensure adequate child protection, the licensing of parents, children's religious education, and children's health. \u003ci\u003eTaking Responsibility for Children\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to philosophers, advocates for children's interests, and those interested in public policy, especially as it relates to children and families. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTaking Responsibility for Children\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eINTRODUCTION \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Taking Responsibility for Children  Robert Noggle and Samantha Brennan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eONE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Raising Children: Who Is Responsible for What?  Colin M. MacLeod\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTWO \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Parental Responsibility  Jan Narveson\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTHREE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Children, Caregivers, Friends  Amy Mullin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFOUR \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Parent Licensing and the Protecting of Children  Mark C. Vopat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFIVE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Responsibility and Children's Rights: The Case for Restricting Parental Smoking  Samantha Brennan and Angela White\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSIX \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Political Liberalism and Moral Education: Reflections on \u003ci\u003eMozart v. Hawkins\u003c\/i\u003e  Marc Ramsay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSEVEN \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Education in a Liberal Society: Implications of \u003ci\u003eRoss\u003c\/i\u003e  Waren Wendling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEIGHT \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Could There Be a Right Not to Be Born an Octuplet?  Laura M. Purdy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColin M. Macleod is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. He is the author \u003ci\u003eLiberalism, Justice and Markets\u003c\/i\u003e (OUP 1998) and co-editor with David Archard of \u003ci\u003eThe Moral and Political Status of Children\u003c\/i\u003e (OUP 2002).\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmy Mullin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eReconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge 2005), along with articles in feminist philosophy, the history of philosophy, and aesthetics. She has three children. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJan Narveson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of Waterloo, after teaching there for more than forty years. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Libertarian Idea, Respecting Persons in Theory and Practice, Moral Matters\u003c\/i\u003e, and various others. He is the father of three and devotes a lot of his life to organizing chamber music concerts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLaura M. Purdy received a PhD from Stanford University and is Professor of Philosophy and Ruth and Albert Koch Professor of Humanities at Wells College, where she has been based since 1979. Her areas of specialization are applied ethics, primarily bioethics, reproductive ethics, family issues, and feminism. She is author of \u003ci\u003eIn Their Best Interest? The Case against Equal Rights for Children\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eReproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eFeminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (with Helen B. Holmes), \u003ci\u003eViolence against Women: Philosophical Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e (with Stanley French and Wanda Teays), \u003ci\u003eEmbodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances\u003c\/i\u003e (with Anne Donchin), and \u003ci\u003eBioethics, Justice, and Health Care\u003c\/i\u003e (with Wanda Teays), as well as many articles. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarc Ramsay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Acadia University. In addition to children's rights, his current research interests include the role of the harm principle in constitutional law and the relevance of religious beliefs to the law of torts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMark C. Vopat is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio. His research interests are in moral and political philosophy, particularly in the areas of children's rights, education, distributive justice, and justice and technology. He has written recently on issues of justice, religion, and a child's right to an education, as well as on issues in professional ethics. His homepage can be found at www.as.ysu.edu\/~philrel\/faculty\/vopat\/Vopat.html.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKaren Wendling is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. Most of her publications are on egalitarianism, broadly conceived. She also has a long-standing interest in the political development of children from unfree and unequal subjects into free and equal citizens. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAngela White is a doctoral student in Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests are in political philosophy and social justice, health care ethics, and feminist ethics. She has published and presented work on ethical issues related to reproductive technologies, particularly in vitro fertilization and human embryo stem cell research. Her homepage is at http:\/\/publish.uwo.ca\/~awhite33\/.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188662198615,"sku":"9781554580156","price":37.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/taking-responsibility-for-children-9781554580156","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}