The institution of the family and its importance have recently received considerable attention
from political theorists. Leading views maintain that the institution's justification is grounded …

Childhood looms large in our understanding of human life, as a phase through which all
adults have passed. Childhood is foundational to the development of selfhood, the formation …

One of the most provocative claims in current climate ethics is that we ought to have fewer
children, because procreation brings new people into existence and thereby causes large …

Some argue that procreation is immoral due to its negative environmental impact. Since
living an “eco-gluttonous” lifestyle of excessive resource consumption is wrong in virtue of …

Focusing on present‐day possibilities raised by existing technology, I consider the
normative aspects of genetically modifying the human germline from a utilitarian standpoint …

The main goal of this paper is to explore the forcefulness of the adoption challenge to
procreative parenting. After framing the challenge, I consider two of the most developed …

I defend two collapsing or reductionist arguments against weak pro-natalism (WPN), the
view that procreation is generally merely permissible. In particular, I argue that WPN …

Antinatalism is the view that procreation is morally wrong. This paper introduces and
validates the Short Antinatalism Scale (S-ANS) that allows researchers to measure …

Population policy has taken two divergent trajectories. In the developing part of the world,
controlling population growth has been a major tune of the debate more than a half-century …

Unwanted children are carried, born, and reluctantly raised each year; they are prone to
abortion, abandonment, neglect, and abuse. Meanwhile, many developed societies are …