Parental justice and the kids pay view

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• dc.contributor.author Magnusson, Erik
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-04-27T08:02:44Z
• dc.date.available 2020-04-27T08:02:44Z
• dc.date.issued 2018
• dc.description.abstract In a just society, who should be liable for the significant costs associated with creating and raising children? Patrick Tomlin has recently argued that children themselves may be liable on the grounds that they benefit from being raised into independent adults. This view, which Tomlin calls ‘Kids Pay’, depends on the more general principle that a beneficiary can incur an obligation to share in the cost of an essential benefit that the benefactor is responsible for her requiring. I argue in this paper that this principle is both generally false and particularly suspect in the kinds of cases that Tomlin needs it to be true, namely, cases in which a benefactor has created the need to be benefitted to satisfy a self-regarding interest in providing the benefit. In a nutshell, I argue that because parents (a) electively put their children into a needy circumstance for the purpose of (b) satisfying a self-regarding interest in meeting their children’s needs, they lack a legitimate claim against their children to share in its associated costs.
• dc.description.sponsorship For helpful comments and discussion on previous drafts, I am grateful to Serena Olsaretti and Isabella Trifan. Research for this project was supported by the European Research Council (ERC) project on Justice and the Family: An Analysis of the Normative Significance of Procreation and Parenting in a Just Society (Grant number: 648610; grant acryonym: Family Justice).
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• dc.identifier.citation Magnusson E. Parental justice and the kids pay view. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 2018 Aug;21(4):963-77. DOI: 10.1007/s10677-018-9937-z
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10677-018-9937-z
• dc.identifier.issn 1386-2820
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44330
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Springer
• dc.relation.ispartof Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 2018 Aug;21(4):963-77
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/648610
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• dc.subject.keyword Parental justice
• dc.subject.keyword Kids Pay
• dc.subject.keyword Principle of fair play
• dc.subject.keyword Benefit foisting
• dc.subject.keyword Patrick Tomlin
• dc.title Parental justice and the kids pay view
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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