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- Title: How Do We Acquire Parental Responsibilities?(Critical Essay)
- Author : Social Theory and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 234 KB
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1. Introduction 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.