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Should Parents Be Licensed?: Debating the Issues (Contemporary Issues) Paperback – March 1, 2004

by Peg Tittle (Author)
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Would-be teachers are generally required to study fulltime for at least eight months before the state will allow them the responsibility of educating children for six hours a day. Many would say we have set the bar too low. And yet we haven’t even set the bar as high — in fact we haven’t set a bar at all — for parents. Should there be a national parenting policy, including mandatory parenthood training and screening of prospective parents?
In this informative and thought-provoking collection of articles, experts from the disciplines of philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, law, political science, public health, sociology, and anthropology consider the many issues involved in licensing parents. Following a thorough introduction to these issues, editor Peg Tittle presents the contributions in three major sections. The first part focuses on parenting, presenting several proposals for licensing, then taking a closer look at the problem of assessing nurturing skills, drawing on work done in the areas of custody, adoption, and new reproductive technologies.
The second part focuses on parentage, exploring the moral acceptability of passing on genetic disease, as well as the moral implications of genetic engineering.
The third part examines in greater detail objections and replies to the concept of licensing parents. Does everyone have the right to have children? Should contraception ever be mandatory? Should prenatal abuse be criminalized?
The informed debate on these and many other perplexing questions presented in this stimulating book will help to clarify this increasingly important issue.
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  1. Print length
    325 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Prometheus
  4. Publication date
    March 1, 2004
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1591020948
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1591020943
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Peg Tittle (Sundridge, Ontario, Canada) taught applied ethics for several years at Nipissing University, in North Bay, Ontario, and has worked with children and adolescents in various capacities. She is a columnist for The Philosophers' Magazine online philosophy cafe and the author of Ethical Issues in Business: Inquiries, Cases,and Readings and What If? Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prometheus (March 1, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 325 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591020948
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591020943
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.02 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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Peg Tittle is the author of several novels: Fighting Words: notes for a future we won't have (Magenta, 2022), Jess (Magenta, 2022), Gender Fraud: a fiction (Magenta, 2020), Impact (Magenta, 2020), It Wasn't Enough (Magenta, 2020), Exile (Rock's Mills Press, 2018), and What Happened to Tom (Inanna, 2016). What Happened to Tom is on Goodreads' list of Fiction Books That Opened Your Eyes To A Social Or Political Issue, and both Gender Fraud: a fiction and It Wasn't Enough were shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award.

Her screenplays (including What Happened to Tom and Exile) have placed in several competitions, including Moondance, Fade-In, GimmeCredit, WriteMovies, Scriptapalooza, and American Gem. Aiding the Enemy (short) has been produced by David McDonald.

She has also written several nonfiction books: Just Think About It (Magenta); Sexist Shit that Pisses Me Off (Magenta); Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason (Routledge); Should Parents Be Licensed? Debating the Issues (Prometheus); What If? Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy (Longman); Ethical Issues in Business: Inquiries, Cases, and Readings (Broadview).

She was a columnist for the Ethics and Emerging Technologies website for a year (her "TransGendered Courage” received 35,000 hits, making it #3 of the year, and her “Ethics without Philosophers” received 34,000 hits, making it #5 of the year), The Philosopher Magazine's online philosophy café for eight years, and Philosophy Now for two years. In addition, her short commentary pieces have also been published in Humanist in Canada, Links, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Inroads, Elenchus, South Australian Humanist Post, Forum, and The Humanist. Her longer pieces have appeared in Free Inquiry, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, New Humanist, The New Zealand Rationalist and Humanist, Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Sexuality & Culture: an interdisciplinary journal. And she's had a list published at McSweeney's (“Why Feminist Manuscripts Aren’t Getting Published Today”). She now blogs (sporadically) at pegtittle.com and hellyeahimafeminist.com.

She has an M.A. in Philosophy, a B.Ed., and a B.A. in Literature, and has received over twenty Arts Council grants.

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P. J. Rowan
5.0 out of 5 stars Minority Report.
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Minority Report. Thankfully, someone chose to put a Black baby on the cover for those who do not understand the "code" talk of undeserving parents.
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Susan
3.0 out of 5 stars Useful for the "pro-licensing" argument
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2013
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This book has lots of reason for licensing parents and not many against. It was moderately useful for a class project.
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Coolox
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent discussion of an uncomfortable topic.
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2005
Most of us can biologically produce children - no questions asked. This book asks the question - SHOULD everyone have the right to bear and raise children. After all, those who wish to adopt or foster children have to undergo very rigorous screening. Other people who wish to look after children, such as teachers for example, need to go through years of studying and training before they are able to take on the responsibility of educating children. But parents who bring children into this world - who are responsible for educating them, influencing them and generally affecting their futures - are not required to prove their ability at all. This book asks the basic question - should they be?

This book has some provocative articles and asks some very uncomfortable questions. Examples are: should people with serious genetic defects be allowed to reproduce? Should contraception be made compulsory to prevent some people from reproducing? Why, or why not? What kind of legislation could or should be introduced? How effective would it be?

As a mother I would would feel very uncomfortable and indignant even if anyone questioned my right and ability to be a parent. However, I am also aware of so many children being raised in institutions because their parents/family system cannot do so for a variety of reasons. Similarly there are so many children in society who are abused or neglected. Since many of these children will eventually be looked after by the public, via our taxes, institutions, teachers, nurses, social workers etc - shouldn't we be asking these uncomfortable questions? This affects us all.

I found the articles to be evenly balanced and the reading very thought-provoking.
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