Daniela Cutas – författare

This open access book is the first volume on the ethics of intra-familial reproduction, exploring cutting-edge debates and developments in reproductive science and their impact on how we conceptualize kinship.In recent decades, reproductive technologies have enabled novel uses of family members’ reproductive materials (such as gametes or wombs) or functions (such as pregnancy). Reproductive material has been collected from comatose or deceased people at the request of their spouses, and then used in reproduction. Invasive fertility preservation measures have been undertaken on children, at the request of their parents. Mothers have carried their adult offspring´s babies in their wombs in order to help them become parents. Such examples raise unprecedented ethical challenges. Whose interests ground the creation of offspring using a deceased person’s gametes? What is the relation between a mother and the grandchild that she gave birth to; between a deceased man and the children conceived with his sperm; or between the parents of a deceased woman and the baby that they created with her eggs? Contributors to The Ethics of Intra-familial Access to Reproductive Potential explore how these new forms of family connection will only grow in number and complexity as new technologies proliferate. Chapters contribute to ongoing debates on the moral status of children, the importance of genetic reproduction, and the clarification of claims to others’ reproductive capacities in the context of the family.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book examines, through a multi-disciplinary lens, the possibilities offered by relationships and family forms that challenge the nuclear family ideal, and some of the arguments that recommend or disqualify these as legitimate units in our societies.That children should be conceived naturally, born to and raised by their two young, heterosexual, married to each other, genetic parents; that this relationship between parents is also the ideal relationship between romantic or sexual partners; and that romance and sexual intimacy ought to be at the core of our closest personal relationships - all these elements converge towards the ideal of the nuclear family.The authors consider a range of relationship and family structures that depart from this ideal: polyamory and polygamy, single and polyparenting, parenting by gay and lesbian couples, as well as families created through assisted human reproduction.

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.We tend to hold people responsible for their choices, but not for what they can’t control: their nature, genes or biological makeup. This thought-provoking collection redefines the boundaries of moral responsibility. It shows how epigenetics reveals connections between our genetic make-up and our environment. The essays challenge established notions of human nature and the nature/nurture divide and suggest a shift in focus from individual to collective responsibility. Uncovering the links between our genetic makeup, environment and experiences, this is an important contribution to ongoing debates on ethics, genetics and responsibility.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book examines, through a multi-disciplinary lens, the possibilities offered by relationships and family forms that challenge the nuclear family ideal, and some of the arguments that recommend or disqualify these as legitimate units in our societies.That children should be conceived naturally, born to and raised by their two young, heterosexual, married to each other, genetic parents; that this relationship between parents is also the ideal relationship between romantic or sexual partners; and that romance and sexual intimacy ought to be at the core of our closest personal relationships - all these elements converge towards the ideal of the nuclear family.The authors consider a range of relationship and family structures that depart from this ideal: polyamory and polygamy, single and polyparenting, parenting by gay and lesbian couples, as well as families created through assisted human reproduction.

Should parents aim to make their children as normal as possible to increase their chances to “fit in”? Are neurological and mental health conditions a part of children’s identity and if so, should parents aim to remove or treat these? Should they aim to instill self-control in their children? Should prospective parents take steps to insure that, of all the children they could have, they choose the ones with the best likely start in life? This volume explores all of these questions and more. Against the background of recent findings and expected advances in neuroscience and genetics, the extent and limits of parental responsibility are increasingly unclear. Awareness of the effects of parental choices on children’s wellbeing, as well as evolving norms about the moral status of children, have further increased expectations from (prospective) parents to take up and act on their changing responsibilities. The contributors discuss conceptual issues such as the meaning and sources of moral responsibility, normality, treatment, and identity. They also explore more practical issues such as how responsibility for children is practiced in Yoruba culture in Nigeria or how parents and health professionals in Belgium perceive the dilemmas generated by prenatal diagnosis.