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Family, Ancestry and Self: What is the Moral Significance of Biological Ties?
2009-01-01
Abstract excerpt
In a series of recent papers David Velleman has argued that it is morally wrong to bring a child into existence with the intention that the child will not have contact with one or both biological parents. (Velleman, 2005, 2008) Put another way, “other things being equal, children should be raised by their biological parents.” (Velleman, 2005 362fn 3) The primary targets of his argument are those who use anonymous...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 461f983f-70b9-5ee6-ae5c-56349d315312
- DOI
- 10.1353/ado.2009.0001