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Parenthood and the concept of the biological tie
2021-02-23
Abstract excerpt
It is widely assumed that there is value in the biological tie between parent and child. An implication of this is that adoption is often considered a less desirable alternative to procreation. This paper offers a philosophical defence of adoptive parenthood as a valuable and authentic form of parenthood. While previous defences have suggested that society’s valorisation of the biological tie is unjustified, I arg...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ccacdd75-244e-5e40-bd6e-d1d78a3f214a
- DOI
- 10.21825/digest.v7i2.15950