Evaluating parental power

An exercise in pluralist political theory

Allyn Fives

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781784994327
• eBook ISBN: 9781526118813
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Is parents' power over their children legitimate? And what role does theoretical analysis play when we make such normative evaluations? While this book adds to the growing literature on parents, children, families, and the state, it does so by focusing on one issue, the legitimacy of parents' power. It also takes seriously the challenge posed by moral pluralism, and considers the role of both theoretical rationality and practical judgement in resolving moral dilemmas associated with parental power.The primary intended market for this book is advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and established academics, in particular those with an interest in practical and applied ethics, contemporary political theory, moral theory, social theory, the sociology of childhood, political sociology, social work, and social policy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of tables
• Series editor’s foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: philosophy, power, and parents
• Part I: Paternalism and its limits
• Part II: Conceptual and methodological issues
• Part III: The moral legitimacy of parental power
• Conclusion
• References
• Index