Am I My Parents' Keeper?: An Essay on Justice Between the Young and the Old

by Norman Daniels

Book Overview

In today's society, the young and the old compete fiercely for an essential yet scarce resource--public funds for human services. With the rapidly increasing number of people over the age of sixty-five, we face a wide range of new dilemmas, including how to distribute social resources among the different age groups competing for them, and how to determine the exact relationship between filial obligations and social obligations to care for the elderly.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195061640
• ISBN13: 9780195061642
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"