Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Introduction vii
5. Children and Moral Theory
6. The Aims of a Moral Theory 3
7. What is a Child? 9
8. A Distributive Theory for Children
9. The Currency of Children’s Justice 17
10. Welfare across the Lifespan 31
11. Priority, Not Equality, of Welfare 43
12. Perfectionism and Upbringing
13. The Case against Neutrality 55
14. Understanding Perfectionism 67
15. The Implications of Perfectionism 79
16. The Rights and Duties of Parents
17. The Project View of Parenting 97
18. Distributing Parental Duties 111
19. Perfectionism and Parenting 123
20. Beyond Parents: Collective Duties to Children 135
21. Distributive Implications
22. Children’s Distributive Outcomes: Equality of Opportunity? 149
23. Paying for Childcare 159
24. Conclusion 171
25. Bibliography 175
26. Index 187