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Preferring a Genetically-Related Child

2015-09-11

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Millions of children worldwide could benefit from adoption. One could argue that prospective parents have a pro tanto duty to adopt rather than create children. For the sake of argument, I assume there is such a duty and focus on a pressing objection to it. Prospective parents may prefer that their children are genetically related to them. I examine eight reasons prospective parents have for preferring genetic chi...

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Literature Corpus work: 1d7ba134-6cec-5840-ad77-fd525d430992
DOI: 10.1163/17455243-4681062

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