The worth of a child /

Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth o...

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Tác giả chính: Murray, Thomas H., 1946-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
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  • 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.