Evaluating parental power : an exercise in pluralist political theory /

Fives, Allyn,

Evaluating parental power : an exercise in pluralist political theory / Allyn Fives. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Social and political power .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Evaluating parental power; Contents; List of tables ; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: philosophy, power, and parents; Part I: Paternalism and its limits; 1 Paternalism; 2 Caretaker or liberator?; Part II: Conceptual and methodological issues; 3 Moral dilemmas; 4 Children's agency; 5 Parental power; 6 Normative legitimacy; Part III: The moral legitimacy of parental power; 7 Legitimacy in the political domain and in the family; 8 Licensing, monitoring, and training parents; 9 Children and the provision of informed consent. 10 Sharing lives, shaping values, and voluntary civic educationConclusion; References; Index.

When and for what reasons does parents' power have legitimacy? And how do we rationally justify such normative evaluations? These are the questions posed in this book. In doing so, a number of specific case studies are examined in detail and an argument is made for a pluralist approach both to the conceptualisation of power and to its normative evaluation.



9781526118806


Parent and child.
Children's rights.


Electronic Books.

HQ755 / .E935 2017