What’s love got to do with it? Why a child does not have a right to be loved

Cowden, Mhairi

doi:10.1080/13698230.2011.572426

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“…first, I assume that adults may have some rights, of a familiar kind, to rear children and that such rights are importantly conditional on their providing a good enough upbringing to that child. I do not offer any arguments addressed to child-liberationists in this paper (Cohen 1980;holt 1974). Nor do I offer arguments to those who believe that parental rights or custodial rights are unconditional.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

How bad can a good enough parent be?

Shields

2016

Can. J. of Philosophy

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Almost everyone accepts that parents must provide a good enough upbringing in order to retain custodial rights over children, but little has been said about how that level should be set. In this paper, I examine ways of specifying a good enough upbringing. I argue that the two dominant ways of setting this level, the Best Interests and Abuse and Neglect Views, are mistaken. I defend the Dual Comparative View, which holds that an upbringing is good enough when shortfalls from the best alternative upbringing in terms of the child's interests are no more significant than the parents' interest.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

How bad can a good enough parent be?

Shields

2016

Can. J. of Philosophy

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“…These arguments are persuasive but limited. As their critics show, individuals can achieve only that much success in their attempts to self-induce affection towards or caring for, a particular individual (Brake 2011; Cowden 2012; Rainbolt 2016). Affection and caring (as well as special attention) respond to some of the qualities of the beloved; this claim need not presuppose the controversial view that we love people because of their qualities, but the more modest one that sufficient change in certain qualities of the beloved can challenge, and sometimes destroy, love (Brake 2011).…”

Section: Claim (2): There Cannot Be a Duty To Lovementioning

confidence: 99%

Love and Justice: a Paradox?

Gheaus

2017

Can. J. of Philosophy

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Three claims about love and justice cannot be simultaneously true and therefore entail a paradox: (1) Love is a matter of justice. (2) There cannot be a duty to love. (3) All matters of justice are matters of duty. The first claim is more controversial. To defend it, I show why the extent to which we enjoy the good of love is relevant to distributive justice. To defend (2) I explain the empirical, conceptual and axiological arguments in its favour. Although (3) is the most generally endorsed claim of the three, I conclude we should reject it in order to avoid the paradox.

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“…Children should grow up with love. Therefore, the first need to be satisfied is love [49,50] because children who grow up with love become sensitive to all constituents of this emotion. Love improves their socialization, identification with others, and their desire to search and examine the world.…”

Section: Child's Need For Lovementioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing Books for Children from Birth through Age Six: A New Children's Reality Approach

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2016

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Works of literature for children are supposed to give prominence to the child's self. In other words, the level of the works is expected to be appropriate to the characteristics of this demographic. In works of children's literature, the prominence of adults and their worlds along with their ideological, religious, and traditional statements, instead of those of children, indicate that books for children are formed not for children but for adults and their ideologies. This situation reveals an adult's will to shape the child. Merging perceptions, which are unfamiliar to the child's own and pertaining to the adult's world, into books for children may cause a child to take an early step towards adult life. The fact that children find ideologies, behaviors, actions, and senses pertaining to adults' lives, rather than their own, may cause children to feel alienated from their childhoods. Publishing books for children by reflecting perceptions unfamiliar to the children's worlds may cause "adult children" to appear in books for children. This article proposes that works of children's literature should reflect the children's reality. Thus, the child can be an active participant in the process of reading culture.

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What’s love got to do with it? Why a child does not have a right to be loved

Cited by 56 publications

References 21 publications

How bad can a good enough parent be?

How bad can a good enough parent be?

Love and Justice: a Paradox?

Preparing Books for Children from Birth through Age Six: A New Children's Reality Approach

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