Family-making : contemporary ethical challenges /

A team of experts explore the ethics of making families through adoption or technologically assisted reproduction. They examine the moral choices involved, and the social norms that can distort decision-making, such as the norm in favour of having biologically related children, or the privileging of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Baylis, Françoise, 1961- (Editor), McLeod, Carolyn (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Issues in biomedical ethics.
Subjects:	Human reproductive technology > Moral and ethical aspects. Adoption > Moral and ethical aspects. Bioethics. Parenting. Adoption. Reproductive Techniques > ethics Parenting Adoption Procréation médicalement assistée > Aspect moral. Adoption > Aspect moral. Rôle parental. HEALTH & FITNESS > Sexuality. Bioethics Human reproductive technology > Moral and ethical aspects Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Goods of parenting / Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift
Goods of childhood and children's rights / Samantha Brennan
Critique of the bionormative concept of the family / Charlotte Witt
Families of assisted reproduction and adoption / Lucy Blake, Martin Richards, and Susan Golombok
What is the value of procreation? / Christine Overall
Unique value of adoption / Tina Rulli
State regulation and assisted reproduction : balancing the interests of parents and children / Jurgen De Wispelaere and Daniel Weinstock
"Not for the faint of heart" : assessing the status quo on adoption and parental licensing / Carolyn McLeod and Andrew Botterell
On non-biological maternity, or "my daughter is going to be a father!" / Julie Crawford
Special responsibilities of parents using technologically assisted reproduction / James Lindemann Nelson
Adoptee vulnerability and post-adoptive parental obligation / Mianna Lotz
Political geography of whites adopting Black children in the United States / Heath Fogg Davis
Analogies to adoption in arguments against anonymous gamete donation : geneticizing the desire to know / Kimberly Leighton
Transnational commercial contract pregnancy in India / Françoise Baylis
Aged parenting through ART and other means / Jennifer A. Parks.