The Worth of a Child

by Thomas H. Murray

Book Overview

Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a child?

Ethicist Murray leaves the rarefied air of abstract moral philosophy in order to reflect on the moral perplexities of ordinary life and ordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520088360
• ISBN13: 9780520088368
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An excellent and insightful read

the ethical implication regarding children are complex, and thomas murray discusses them in a way that is so wonderful - it makes me want to be his child.