Saving unwanted children: a proposal for a National Rearing Institute.

IF 1.1 3区 哲学 Q3 ETHICS
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-03 DOI:10.1007/s11017-023-09621-7
Ming-Jui Yeh
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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.

拯救不想要的孩子:国家养育研究所的提案。
每年都有不想要的孩子被抱、出生和勉强抚养;他们容易堕胎、被遗弃、被忽视和被虐待。与此同时,许多发达社会正遭受人口减少的痛苦。为了同时解决这两个问题,我建议,各国政府应给予孕妇和母亲一个不可逆转的、无条件的一次性机会,让她们将与特定年龄以下的每个孩子相关的所有法律权利和义务交给国家养育研究所,该研究所收养这些孩子,并将他们抚养到能够充分行使成年公民权利的年龄。我把这套政策安排称为“新共和党人项目”。该项目旨在(1)保护和支持不想要的孩子的最大利益,(2)最大限度地提高生下这些孩子的母亲的健康结果,帮助母亲实现自我实现,以及(3)防止人口减少,防止人口因生育而涌入。该项目主要基于对正义的功利性和代际/代际描述。它还改善了不公正的社会结构对妇女的压迫和统治,符合基于人权的做法。
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14.30%
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43
期刊介绍: AIMS & SCOPE Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics examines clinical judgment and reasoning, medical concepts such as health and disease, the philosophical basis of medical science, and the philosophical ethics of health care and biomedical research Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics is an international forum for interdisciplinary studies in the ethics of health care and in the philosophy and methodology of medical practice and biomedical research. Coverage in the philosophy of medicine includes the theoretical examination of clinical judgment and decision making; theories of health promotion and preventive care; the problems of medical language and knowledge acquisition; theory formation in medicine; analysis of the structure and dynamics of medical hypotheses and theories; discussion and clarification of basic medical concepts and issues; medical application of advanced methods in the philosophy of science, and the interplay between medicine and other scientific or social institutions. Coverage of ethics includes both clinical and research ethics, with an emphasis on underlying ethical theory rather than institutional or governmental policy analysis. All philosophical methods and orientations receive equal consideration. The journal pays particular attention to developing new methods and tools for analysis and understanding of the conceptual and ethical presuppositions of the medical sciences and health care processes. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics publishes original scholarly articles, occasional special issues on important topics, and book reviews. Related subjects » Applied Ethics & Social Responsibility – Bioethics – Ethics – Epistemology & Philosophy of Science – Medical Ethics – Medicine – Philosophy – Philosophy of Medicine – Surgery
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