The worth of a child / Thomas H. Murray.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520915305
- 0520915305
- 058503401X
- 9780585034010
- Parenthood -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Childbirth -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Parent and child
- Children and adults
- Ethics
- Child Welfare
- Parents
- Parent-Child Relations
- Parenting
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Abuse -- Child Abuse
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Parent & Adult Child
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- General
- Childbirth -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Children and adults
- Ethics
- Parent and child
- Parenthood -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Family & Marriage
- Sociology & Social History
- Social Sciences
- 306.874 20
- HQ755.8 .M88 1996eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
Why do adults have children? -- Families, the marketplace, and values: new ways of making babies -- Adoption and the meanings of parenthood -- Research on children and the scope of responsible parenthood -- Moral obligations to the not-yet-born child -- Prenatal testing and the quest for the perfect child -- Abortion and the place of motherhood.
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English.
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