Should I have a kid?
Do we "do good" by having children? (Benatar, Smilansky)
Are there already too many people? (Caplan)
Should we first have to get a license? (LaFollette)
Should same sex couples have kids? (Martin)
Can I end a pregnancy once it has begun?
When does a child's life begin--at conception or a little later or much later? (Olson)
Is it always wrong to terminate a pregnancy? (Thomson, Finnis, Juno)
Do I have to reproduce the old-fashioned way?
Is surrogate motherhood OK? Does it matter if the surrogate is very poor? (Thernstrom, Carney, Purdy)
Donor egg, donor sperm, PGD, IVF--any problems? (Robertson)
Should I avoid disabilities through both protection and selection?
The precariousness of origin, the paradox of future individuals (Kavka)
Avoiding disabilities ... why, why not? (Kavka, Asch, Steinbock, Gattaca, etc.)
Pursuing disabilities .... why, noy not? (Davis)
Should I have aim to have the best child I can?
The enhanced child ... must we, may we? (Savulescu, Sandel)
Is gender selection OK? (Savulescu, McDougall)
Who gets to raise the baby?
When should fathers get custody? Do mothers have extra rights because they get pregnant? (Benatar, Shanley)
It's a boy/girl! (So what?)
Should we teach gender roles to kids? (Fausto-Sterling, Poisson, Erdely)
Should mothers and fathers play distinct gender roles? (Saul)
What may we do to children? What violates their rights?
The right to an open future (Feinberg) and other rights (UN)
To circumcise or not to circumcise (the Benatars, Darby)
Is it not so bad to lie to children? (Kind)
Should teenagers be able to consent to sex? What about voting? (Archard)
Parents who don't vaccinate -- are they freeriders? (Stemwedel)
The kids are all grown up now
What sorts of obligations do adult children have to their parents (English, Mildred, Wang)
What did we get out of having a child?
The puzzling fact that parents are less happy -- why, and what follows? (Lyubomirsky, Caplan)
Does parenthood add meaning to life? (Kazez)
What if we decided not to have a kid?
Will we be (a) better off on average, (b) worse off on average (c) freeriders/freeloaders, (d) victims of discrimination (e) other?
Background facts on childless people (Time)
- US childless women ages 40-44 = 1 in 5
- of those, 49% are voluntarily childless
- expect to be childless = 1 in 8 (high income), 1 in 14 (middle income), 1 in 20 (low income)
- international data
(a) better off on average OR (b) worse off on average
- happiness vs. meaning vs. legacy (POWERPOINT)
- my childless neighbors will collect social security in old age, paid for by younger generation they didn't help to create
- A freerider ... (a) accepts a benefit without paying for it; AND (b) wants that benefit, cares about continuing to enjoy it; AND (c) could have paid without causing undue harm to anyone.
- employees with more kids receive more compensation through medical benefits
- parents can get family leave; childless can't get "yoga leave"
- childless workers fill in for parents
- complaint HERE
- on the other hand: childless women do better than mothers in the workplace (see HERE)
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