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- Title: Michael W. Austin, Conceptions of Parenthood: Ethics and the Family (Brenda Almond's "the Fragmenting Family") (Book Review)
- Author : Social Theory and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 237 KB
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[Review Essay: Michael W. Austin, Conceptions of Parenthood: Ethics and the Family (Ashgate Studies in Applied Ethics) (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, 2007), vii + 138 pp.; Brenda Almond, The Fragmenting Family (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), 259 pp.] These two books could not be more different. Michael W. Austin's work is a relatively narrowly focused look at the concept of parenthood. Austin carefully examines several different notions of parenthood, rejecting a number of them before settling on a small set of such notions that he thinks successfully generate both parental obligations and parental rights under the umbrella of "stewardship." He then goes on to consider the moral and legal obligations of stewardship. Along the way, he briefly touches upon related policy issues.