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Pre-natal testing, excessive parenting and care ethics.
- Source :
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New Bioethics . Sep2023, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p265-278. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This article explores the current parenting culture, particularly the promotion of competitive and excessive parenting, as an important background issue against which the debates around pre-natal testing take place. It offers an alternative vision of parenting, relying on care ethics, which sees parenting as a relationship, rather than a job. A relationship that should change a parent's understanding of what is valuable in life. Parenting should not be about moulding the 'perfect child' but being open to being profoundly changed. The parent–child with a disability relationship offers particular opportunities to find new meanings and values in life. This analysis is offered as another dimension to the debates over pre-natal testing. It is not intended as an argument against such testing, but rather raises concerns about some of the broader attitudes around it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PRENATAL diagnosis
*PARENT-child relationships
*PARENTING
*ETHICS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20502877
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New Bioethics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 169923804
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2022.2149044