Pdf parent licensing and the protection of children mark vopat. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Hugh lafollette licensing parents in this essay i shall argue that the state should require all parents to be licensed. Topic approved the problem of possibly inadequate parents. What is lafollette s considered view on licensing parents. Lafollette observed that we license a number of activities and those activities meet three conditions, which justify their being subject to licensing. It welcomes philosophical discussions of substantive legal, social, and political problems, as well as. A nonethical argument against parental licensing 1 lafollettes.
Most of his published essays have been in ethics, political philosophy, and the. What is lafollettes considered view on licensing parents. Hugh lafollette books list of books by author hugh. That gives us powerful reason to think that the licensing of parents is.
A reply to hugh lafollette pierre lemieux, parent licensing 15. Hugh lafollette editor visit amazons hugh lafollette page. We license drivers, doctors, gun owners, and many other types of potentially harmful. I find it odd that so many people categorically reject proposals to license parents.
Pdf parent licensing and the protection of children. Issues of public concern often have an important philosophical dimension. Beyond the personhood argument 806 substance abuse. This paper is an extension of hugh lafollettes original philosophical work, licensing parents, which was published in philosophy and public affairs in 1980. A nonethical argument against parental licensing bruno pusi c abstract. Lafollette argues that using the policy of parent licensing would reduce the harm inflicted to children by their parents explanation of my argument. Lafollette points out that the government currently regulates several sorts of activities by requiring a license to perform them.
On the one hand, parent licensing proposals such as hugh lafollettes2 are far too optimistic regarding the predictive accuracy of psychological tests used to. The practice of ethics article pdf available in social choice and welfare 343. Licensing parents hugh lafollette lafollettes thesis and argument is that we should require all parents or potential parents to procure a license prior to having children. In his widelydiscussed article, licensing parents, hugh lafollete argues that states should require people to attain a license in order to be parents to prevent any serious harm to children. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Licensing parents hugh lafollete would the licensing of parents be morally right and theoretically possible.
It sounds like a good idea, but it would actually violate peoples rights. Hugh lafollette has argued that we ought to require parenting licenses by relating such licenses to the general practice of licensing as well as our presentlyaccepted requirements surrounding adoption. Licensing parents revisited licensing parents revisited lafollette, hugh 20101101 00. Hugh lafollettes paper, is licensing parents wrong. See all books authored by hugh lafollette, including ethics in practice blackwell philosophy anthologies, and in defense of gun control, and more on. So why is it a stretch to think about licensing parents when we, as a society, are burdened with social welfare programs, school lunch programs, department of child welfare departments, day care expenses, early childhood education etc. I use lafollettes framework to discuss the ways the system would work in practice and to respond to various counterarguments against the idea. I argue that licensing of parents may not significantly reduce the cases of harming children caused by their parents. Pdf in this paper we reexamine hugh lafollettes proposal that the state carefully determine the eligibility and suitability of prospective. Katha pollitt paternalism gerald dworkin licensing parents hugh lafollette surrogate motherhood as prenatal adoption bonnie steinbock the case against surrogate parenting herbert t.
According to hugh lafollette in his essay licensing parents, it is and would be both right and possible to do so. The harm principle and parental licensing in advance. I will attempt to argue lafollettes point by using the different scenarios and analogies presented in his essay. Ethics and society winter 2019 instructor reuven brandt office. A defense of parent licensing connecting repositories. The original proposal for the introduction of parental licensing was made by hugh lafollette in 1980 in the article. Love, identity, and morality 1995, coauthor of brute science. The dilemmas of animal experimentation 1996, and coeditor of six other volumes, including the blackwell guide to ethical theory blackwell 1999.
It is both theoretically desirable and practically applicable. Although the relationship between a parent and her children is. He is editorinchief of the international encyclopedia of ethics 20, wileyblackwell, author of three books, including the practice of ethics 2007 and editor of six more, in ethics. Philosophy and public affairs is founded in the belief that a philosophical examination of these issues can contribute to their clarification and to their resolution. Pdf the harm principle and parental licensing in advance. Lafollette proposed that the best way to protect children from abuse and neglect caused by their parents would be to implement parental licenses to prospective parents. Licensing parents jan 30 frisch, on licentious licensing. Licensing parents case study solution case study analysis. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Licensing parents revisited, journal of applied philosophy.
Hugh lafollette has proposed that in order to prevent statistically expected harm that many parents inflict on their children prospective parents should be licensed. P2 an activity which meets the following three criteria. Licensing parents 772 12 is abortion morally permissible. Positive argument for parent licensing in the status quo, parenting is considered a right, but it should be considered a privilege. Because again, lafollette is not proposing that we only license good parents, merely that we do not license abominable ones. In this paper, i reevaluate his proposal by looking at various facts and data related to child abuse and. Hugh lafollette is professor of philosophy at east tennessee state university. Noonan, jr abortion is not morally permissible 789 mary anne warren. Lafollette points out that the government currently regulates several sorts of activities by requiring a license to. You can be prone to distraction or substance abuse and still be a minimally competent driver, and so lafollette s proposed scheme is broadly analogous to existent licensing practices. Hugh lafollette 2010 journal of applied philosophy 27 4. I disagree with lafollettes claim that parents should be licensed, specifically that violators would have their child taken away from them and. The fact of the matter is, some people are too mentally, emotionally or financially unprepared to rear children. Perhaps we should apply the same logic to biological parents that we do to adoptive parents in the hopes of preventing harms to children.
It is theoretically desirable, but it could not be applied in practice. In 1980, hugh lafollette set out a compelling and provocative argument for parental licensing. In the article licensing parents, hugh lafollette controversially takes licensing one step further and concludes that the state should morally require people to obtain a license. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. Lafollette and his critics hugh lafollette, licensing parents critics lawrence e. The arguments are not new, and are modeled on a treatise from 1980, also called licensing parents, an equally disastrous article authored by a certain hugh lafollette in philosophy and. Hugh lafollettes argument for parental licensing essay. Just as we have licensing programs for anything potentially very harmful today, we should also have one for being a.
Licensing parents revisited lafollette 2010 journal. A growing number of medical professionals claim a right of conscience, a right to refuse to perform any professional duty they deem immoraland to do so with impunity. Books by hugh lafollette author of ethics in practice. You can be prone to distraction or substance abuse and still be a minimally competent driver, and so lafollettes proposed scheme is broadly analogous to existent licensing practices.
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