Saving unwanted children: a proposal for a National Rearing Institute.
Adoption
Childcare
Convention on the rights of the child (CRC)
Population policy
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH)
Journal
Theoretical medicine and bioethics
ISSN: 1573-0980
Titre abrégé: Theor Med Bioeth
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9805378
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2023
10 2023
Historique:
accepted:
08
03
2023
medline:
11
10
2023
pubmed:
3
5
2023
entrez:
2
5
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Unwanted children are carried, born, and reluctantly raised each year; they are prone to abortion, abandonment, neglect, and abuse. Meanwhile, many developed societies are suffering from depopulation. To address these two issues concurrently, I propose that governments should grant pregnant women and mothers an irreversible and unconditional one-time chance to relinquish all their legal rights and obligations associated with each of their children under a specific age to a National Rearing Institute that adopts the children and rears them to the age when they can fully exercise their rights as adult citizens. I call this set of policy arrangements "Project New Republicans." This project aims to (1) protect and support the best interests of unwanted children, (2) maximize the health outcomes of the mothers who gave birth to these children and help the mothers to achieve self-realization, and (3) preserve an influx to the population from procreation against depopulation. The project is primarily grounded on both the utilitarian and intra- / inter-generational accounts of justice. It also ameliorates the oppression and domination of women by unjust social structures in alignment with the human rights-based approach.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37131116
doi: 10.1007/s11017-023-09621-7
pii: 10.1007/s11017-023-09621-7
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Journal Article
Langues
eng
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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
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