Parental compromise

Hunt, Marcus William

doi:10.1080/13698230.2019.1644582

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“…Parental authority is a delicate matter. As Hunt (2019) points out, the only way to respect the authority of both parents over their child (or children) is for both parents to agree on the same command. Moreover, such a command must be the result of a compromise.…”

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Vegan parents and children: zero parental compromise

Alvaro

2020

Ethics and Education

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Marcus William Hunt argues that when co-parents disagree over whether to raise their child (or children) as a vegan, they should reach a compromise as a gift given by one parent to the other out of respect for his or her authority. Josh Millburn contends that Hunt's proposal of parental compromise over veganism is unacceptable on the ground that it overlooks respect for animal rights, which bars compromising. However, he contemplates the possibility of parental compromise over 'unusual eating,' of animal-based foods obtained without the violation of animal rights. I argue for zero parental compromise, rejecting a rights-oriented approach, and propose a policy that an ethical vegan parent and a non-vegan co-parent should follow to determine how to raise their children. KEYWORD Veganism; Children; Parental Compromise; Religion; RightsConsider this scenario: dad is an ethical vegan and as such, he wishes to raise his child as a vegan. However, mom is not a vegan and, though she understands the importance of ethical veganism and respects dad's ethical commitment to it, she wishes to raise their child as a meat eater, or at least she would like her child's diet to incorporate some animal-based food. What should mom and dad do? According to Hunt (2019), there are four possible courses of action. One, the parents command nothing. This is unacceptable because parents cannot expect the issue to just go away on its own. Two, only one parent makes a command. But this is not a desirable option either because in such a case a parent's command would, obviously, undermine the authority of the co-parent. Three, each parent makes his and her preferred command, which would make a child left to decide which of the two to follow. Consequently, Hunt observes, the best policy mom and dad should follow, which avoids undermining either one's parental authority, is to reach a compromise.Compromise is not the claim that one parent has to capitulate entirely; rather, parents should find a middle ground that both can accept. Although Hunt's proposals in this area are lacking, compromising may mean a position between veganism and non-veganism or it may involve a compromise in which one is the designated parent that determines everything about diet,

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Vegan parents and children: zero parental compromise

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2020

Ethics and Education

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“…In response, I would deny that co-parents do a different action than the solo-parent. Such a thesis does not explain the normative contours of parenthood-e.g., that each parent is able to exercise the normative powers of parenthood as an individual, that the ethical duties of a co-parent to their child are not different from those of a solo-parent(Hunt 2022).…”

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Hunt

2023

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The paper offers an account of co-parenthood according to which co-parents are parent and child to one another. The paper begins by reviewing extant theories of the value of being a parent, to see whether the value of co-parenthood is reducible to this. Finding that it is not, I briefly elaborate a theory of parenthood on which parents are those who create persons. Using Aristotle’s four causes as a helpful prism, I outline how parents are the cause of their child, and how in causing a child together co-parents become parent and child to one another. For instance, since parents create children by offering themselves as models to be copied, co-parents should enjoy the best type of friendship with one another, each treating the other’s flourishing as a human person as their end. I suggest that co-parenthood contains parenthood virtually, that the co-parents’ love of their child is a manifestation of their love for one another, that the teleological fulfilled state of the friendship between parent and child exists in the friendship of co-parents.

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Corrupting the Youth: Should Parents Feed their Children Meat?

Butt

2021

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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This article is concerned with choices that parents or guardians make about the food they give to their children. Those with primary responsibility for the care of young children determine the set of foods that their children eat and have a significant impact on children’s subsequent dietary choices, both in later childhood and in adulthood. I argue that parents have a morally significant reason not to feed meat to their children, which stems from their fiduciary responsibility for the child’s moral development. This should, at a minimum, be factored into parental decisions about their children’s diet. In the absence of compelling countervailing reasons, it will mean that parents should not, in an all-things-considered sense, feed meat to their children. This claim does not rely upon the obviously contentious claim that it is morally wrong to eat meat. Instead, the fact that children, when adults, may reasonably themselves come to believe that consuming meat is wrong gives parents morally compelling reasons to avoid acting in ways which may have the predictable consequence of corrupting the moral character of those for whom they are responsible.

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Parental compromise

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