Volume 15, Number 1
April 2019
ARTICLE

Parental Partiality and Future Children

Volume 15, Number 1, April 2019, Pages 1–18
https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v15i1.351
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Abstract

Prospective parents are sometimes partial towards their future children, engaging in what I call “pre-parental partiality.” Common sense morality is as permissive of pre-parental partiality as it is of ordinary parental partiality—partiality towards one’s existing children. But I argue that pre-parental partiality is harder to justify: love-based justifications for ordinary parental partiality typically provide weaker reasons in support of pre-parental partiality than in support of parental partiality, and other candidate justifications fail to make up for this normative deficit.
Copyright © 2019 Thomas Douglas
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