How Many Parents Can a Child Have? Philosophical Reflections on the 'Three Parent Case'

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Brennan, Samantha [1 ]
Cameron, Bill [1 ]
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[1] Western Univ, London, ON, Canada
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10.1017/S0012217314000705
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B [哲学、宗教];
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01 ; 0101 ;
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In light of recent legal decisions affording more than two parents to Canadian children, we consider whether there is any moral reason for limiting the number of parents a child can have to two. We look at several traditional arguments for this position and find that they fail to justify it. We also consider an argument inspired by Brighouse and Swift's work on the goods of parenting and find that while it brings up important points, it is not strong enough to support a limit of just two parents. We conclude with some thoughts about how else the notion of parenthood could be helpfully separated from traditional notions. la suite des recentes decisions legales reconnaissant plus de deux parents a certains enfants canadiens, nous nous demandons s'il existe des raisons morales pour limiter a deux le nombre de parents qu'un enfant peut avoir. Nous examinons quelques arguments traditionnels soutenant cette position et nous trouvons qu'ils ne suffisent pas pour la justifier. Nous presentons aussi un argument inspire par le travail de Brighouse et Swift au sujet des bienfaits d'etre parent, et nous montrons qu'il n'est pas assez fort pour soutenir la necessite de limiter a deux le nombre de parents. En terminant, nous suggerons quelques autres facons de separer de facon positive l'idee de << parent >> des notions traditionnelles.
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