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Parental Rights
Author(s) -
PAGE EDGAR
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5930.1984.tb00002.x
Subject(s) - property rights , value (mathematics) , property (philosophy) , natural (archaeology) , human rights , right to life , sociology , right to property , law , law and economics , fundamental rights , epistemology , political science , philosophy , mathematics , history , statistics , archaeology
This paper is concerned with the philosophical foundations of parental rights. Some commonly held accounts are rejected. The question of whether parental rights are property rights is examined. It is argued that there are useful analogies with property rights which help us to see that the ultimate justification of parental rights lies in the special value of parenthood in human life. It is further argued that the idea of generation is essential to our understanding of parenthood as having special value and that parental rights properly belong, in the first instance, to natural parents.