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Tomlin, Patrick (2015) Should kids pay their own way? Political Studies, 63 (3). pp. 663-678. doi:10.1111/1467-9248.12111 ISSN 0032-3217.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12111
Abstract
Children are expensive to raise. Ensuring that they are raised in such a way that they are able to lead a minimally decent life costs time and money, and lots of both. Who is responsible for bearing the costs of the things that children are undoubtedly owed? This is a question that has received comparatively little scrutiny from political philosophers, despite children being such a drain on public and private finances alike. To the extent that there is a debate, two main views can be identified. The Parents Pay view says that parents, responsible for the existence of the costs, must foot the bill. The Society Pays view says that a next generation is a benefit to all, and so to allow parents to foot the bill alone is the worst kind of free‐riding. In this article, I introduce a third potentially liable party currently missing from the debate: children themselves. On my backward‐looking view, we are entitled to ask people to contribute to the raising of children on the basis that they have benefited from being raised themselves.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Children -- Philosophy, Child rearing -- Philosophy, Parenting -- Philosophy, Child rearing -- Economic aspects | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Political Studies | ||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0032-3217 | ||||||
| Official Date: | August 2015 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 63 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 663-678 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9248.12111 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 July 2018 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 July 2018 |
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