How do we acquire parental responsibilities?

Social Theory and Practice 34 (1):71-93 (2008)
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Abstract

It is commonly believed that parents have special duties toward their children—weightier duties than they owe other children. How these duties are acquired, however, is not well understood. This is problematic when claims about parental responsibilities are challenged; for example, when people deny that they are morally responsible for their biological offspring. In this paper I present a theory of the origins of parental responsibilities that can resolve such cases of disputed moral parenthood.

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Joseph Millum
University of St. Andrews

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