When do Parental Obligations Not Apply?

An AI narration of the article 'When do Parental Obligations Not Apply?' by Jake Desyllas.

The causal theory of parental responsibility grounds positive obligations in the fact that, by creating a child, parents place that child in a state of peril. But if obligations follow from action, what about the cases where a child comes into existence without the parent having acted in the relevant sense? In this short piece, Jake works through the principled exceptions: rape, gamete theft, paternity fraud, gestational surrogacy, and a pregnancy that endangers the mother's life. Each case is a test of the theory's internal logic — and a clarifier of where parental obligations begin and end. The piece also draws an implication for the abortion debate, distinguishing the consensual-sex case from the rape case on grounds that follow directly from the causal theory.

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
0:29 Rape
1:31 Gamete Theft
2:28 Paternity Fraud
3:01 Gestational Surrogacy
3:20 Endangered Life Of The Mother During Pregnancy

First published at https://www.jakedesyllas.com/blog/2024/7/13/when-do-parental-obligations-apply on 13 July 2024.