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| Preface | |
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| What Is Family Ethics? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Family Ethics and Applied Ethics | |
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| How Do We Do Applied Ethics? Ethical Theory and the Family | |
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| Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Preliminary Issues | |
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| The Nature and History of The Family | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defining the Family: A Matter of More or Less | |
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| Our Understanding of the Family | |
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| Family Life in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts | |
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| The Emotional Significance of the Family in the Western World Before the Industrial Age | |
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| Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Multi-Cultural Perspectives | |
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| On Growing Old in China | |
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| Hopi Family Ethics | |
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| The Mexican-American Family | |
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| Bloodmothers, Othermothers, and Women-Centered Networks in African-American Communities | |
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| Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Criticisms and Defense of The Family | |
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| Marriage, Monogamy and Sexual Preference | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Locke on Rights and Marriage | |
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| Kant on Sex and Marriage | |
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| In Defense of Monogamous Marriage | |
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| Against Homosexual Marriage | |
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| The Case for Gay Marriage | |
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| Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Criticisms of Traditional Marriage and Family | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Proposal to Abolish the Nuclear Family | |
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| On Plato's Proposal | |
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| The Origin of Monogamous Marriage and the Patriarchal Family | |
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| Marriage and the Unjust Treatment of Women | |
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| Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Non-Traditional Families and Family Values | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Permissible Variety of Family Structures | |
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| Family Decline in America | |
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| An Alternative to the Family | |
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| Are Family Values Enduring Values? Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Marital Ethics | |
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| Adultery and Divorce | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Marriage, Adultery and Divorce | |
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| Is Adultery Immoral? Mike Martin, Love's Constancy | |
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| Children and the Ethics of Divorce | |
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| Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Family Violence | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Marital Rape: A Higher Standard is in Order | |
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| Violence in Intimate Relationships | |
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| Violence Against Women Protected by "Privacy." | |
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| Child Abuse and Family Privacy | |
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| Child Abuse: A Multi-Cultural Perspective | |
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| Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Parents and Children | |
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| The Ethics of Creating a Family | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why Have Children? | |
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| When is Birth Unfair to the Child? | |
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| Is There a Natural Right to Have Children? | |
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| Licensing Parents | |
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| Conceiving a Child to Save a Child | |
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| Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Parental Power and The Rights of Children | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Children's Rights and Borrowed Capacities | |
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| Rights of Children, Rights of Parents, and the Moral Basis of the Family | |
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| The Moral Status of Children: Children's Rights, Parent's Rights and Family Justice | |
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| Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Ethics of Childrearing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Parenthood: Three Concepts and a Principle | |
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| The Obligation of Parents to Raise Their Children as Altruists | |
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| Trust and Punishment in the Family | |
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| Questions for Thought and Discussion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| The Duties of Grown Children To Their Parents | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Perpetual Obligation to Honor One's Parents | |
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| Jane English, Wha | |