Full Description
Fowler provides an innovative critical exploration of ethical issues in children's upbringing through the lens of political philosophy, calling for a radical new understanding of what constitutes children's wellbeing, the duties of parents to promote children's wellbeing and the collective obligations of state and society to ensure that children's interests are promoted and protected.
Contents
Section 1. A moral theory for children's justice
1. Aims of a moral theory and methodology
2. What is a child?
Section 2. Assessing Justice for Children
3. The currency of children's justice
4. Welfare across the lifespan
5. Priority, not equality, of welfare
Section 3. Perfectionist upbringing
6. Against neutrality
7. What is perfectionism
8. Examples of perfectionism
Section 4. Children, Parents and Society
9. Parental rights
10. Parental duties
11. Perfectionism and Parenting
12. Beyond Parenting
Section 5. Distributive implications
13. Children's distributive outcomes: Equality of opportunity
14. Subsidising parents
