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- Title
A Duty to Adopt?
- Authors
Friedrich, Daniel
- Abstract
All over the world millions of children are without parental care. As a consequence they are liable to suffer serious harm. I argue the general duty to assist those in need extends to children without parental care and that some people are under a moral duty to adopt rather than have biological children. I defend this claim against the following objections: (1) intimate decisions are excluded from the duty to assist, (2) adopting children is too costly to be required by morality, (3) the duty to assist is a collective duty, (4) the duty to assist is an imperfect duty, and (5) there are, in fact, very few adoptable children.
- Subjects
PARENT-child relationships; CHILD care; RESPONSIBILITY in children; ADOPTED children; BIOLOGICAL children of foster parents; ADOPTION &; ethics; ARGUMENT
- Publication
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2013, Vol 30, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0264-3758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/japp.12003