ISBN:
9789401792523
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Children's well being: indicators and research series volume 9
Series Statement:
Children's Well-Being: Indicators and Research Ser. v.9
Parallel Title:
Print version Nature of children's well-being
DDC:
305.23
Keywords:
Family policy
;
Children's rights
;
Child welfare
;
Children
;
Children -- Attitudes
;
Children ; Attitudes
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book presents new findings that deal with different facets of the well-being of children and their relevance to the proper treatment of children. The well-being of children is considered against the background of a wide variety of legal, political, medical, educational and familial perspectives. The book addresses diverse issues from a range of disciplinary perspectives using a variety of methods. It has three major sections with the essays in each section loosely organized about a common general theme. The first section focuses on issues concerning the relation between children's well-being and autonomy or agency. The second section deals with child well-being insofar as the limits of parental authority are concerned. The third section has a more applied orientation and addresses a variety of public policy controversies involving the interpretation of children's well-being. Alexander Bagattini is assistant professor in Philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf. His areas of research and teaching are in the ethical implications of the concept of child well-being, children's rights, philosophy of education and environmental ethics. He is also principal investigator in the interdisciplinary research project 'Child Well-Being as a Collective Interpretive Pattern' which is funded by the BMBF (German Federal Ministry for Education and Research / Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung).Colin M. Macleod is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research focuses on issues in contemporary moral, political and legal theory, with a special focus on distributive justice and equality; children, families and justice and democratic ethics. He is the author of Liberalism, Justice and Markets (Oxford University Press, 1998) and the editor of Justice and Equality (University of Calgary Press, 2012) and (with David Archard) of The Moral and Political Status of Children (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Contributors; Introduction; References; Part I: Children's Well-Being and Autonomy; Chapter 1: Children, Adults, Autonomy and Well-Being; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Nature and Value of Autonomy; 1.3 The Liberal Orthodoxy; 1.4 Drawing Lines; 1.5 The Threshold Problem; 1.6 A Child's Voice; 1.7 Complications; 1.8 Conclusion; References; Chapter 2: Autonomy and Children's Well-Being; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Children's Claims and the Agency Assumption; 2.3 The Right to an Open Future; 2.4 Autonomy as Independence; 2.5 Child-Sensitive Autonomy; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 3: The 'Intrinsic Goods of Childhood' and the Just Society3.1 'Intrinsic Goods of Childhood'; 3.2 Childhood's Intrinsic Value; 3.3 The Intrinsic Goods of Childhood in Adulthood; 3.4 Three Stories; 3.5 Minimal Trade-Offs and the Just Society; 3.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Agency, Authority and the Vulnerability of Children; 4.1 Agency and Vulnerability; 4.2 Agency and Goods of Childhood: Against Rushing Mature Agency; 4.3 Innocence; 4.4 Imagination; 4.5 Rights, Responsibilities and Agency; 4.6 Conclusion; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5: Enhancing the Capacity for Autonomy: What Parents Owe Their Children to Make Their Lives Go Well5.1 The Parental Duty to Enhance the Autonomy of Their Children; 5.2 What Autonomy?; 5.3 From Caring to Valuing; 5.4 Personal Projects and Autonomy; 5.5 Objections and Replies; 5.5.1 Overdemandigness; 5.5.2 Wrong Ways to Pursue Personal Projects; 5.5.3 Personal Projects Are Not a Necessary Means to Enhance Autonomy; 5.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Utilitarianism, Welfare, Children; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Preliminaries; 6.3 Utilitarian Theories of Welfare
Description / Table of Contents:
6.4 Welfare as Satisfaction in What Is Worthy of Satisfaction6.5 Conclusion; References; Part II: Children's Well-Being and Authority; Chapter 7: Paternalism in Education and the Future; 7.1 Introduction: Forms of Paternalism; 7.2 What Is Problematic About Paternalism in Education?; 7.3 Best Interest: The Time Dimension; 7.4 Legitimate Paternalism; 7.5 Tendency Rules; 7.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Anti-perfectionist Childrearing; 8.1 Parental Perfectionism; 8.2 Political Anti-perfectionism; 8.3 The Case for Parental Anti-perfectionism
Description / Table of Contents:
8.4 An Anti-perfectionist Conception of the Currency of Parental Concern8.5 The Implications of the Ideal of Independence; 8.5.1 The Capacity for a Conception of the Good; 8.5.2 A Sense of Justice and Morality; 8.6 Too Vague?; 8.7 Too Insipid?; 8.8 Too Negligent?; References; Chapter 9: Respecting Children and Children's Dignity; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Some General Concerns with Filial Dignity; 9.3 Children's Dignity: Being Active and Relating to the World; 9.4 Filial Dignity and the Dignity of Persons; References; Chapter 10: Who Decides?; 10.1 Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
10.2 Decision Making Authority Regarding the Lives of Autonomous Persons
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