Right to Be Loved

By S. Matthew Liao

S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child's right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life; therefore, as human beings, children have human rights to the fundamental conditions for pursuing a good life. Since being loved is one of those fundamental conditions, children thus have a right to be loved. Liao shows that this claim need not be merely empty rhetoric, and that the arguments for this right can hang together as a coherent whole.

This is the first book to make a sustained philosophical case for the right of children to be loved. It makes a unique contribution to the fast-growing literature on family ethics, in particular, on children's rights and parental rights and responsibilities, and to the emerging field of the philosophy of human rights.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190234830
• ISBN13: 9780190234836
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"