The Family and Intergenerational Justice

This chapter explores the implications of a liberal egalitarian conception of justice for our understanding of intergenerational justice in matters concerning the family. It provides an overview of a cosmopolitan conception of liberal egalitarianism with specific focus on the goods for children, parents, and other members of society to which such a conception of justice should be sensitive. It considers how an ideal of liberal equality should address issues of intergenerational wealth and procreative liberty under both favorable and unfavorable conditions. The chapter also considers how intergenerational injustice in the past affects our understanding of the entitlements of current families to resources and opportunities.

Damaging the Future: The Health Rights of Children and the Issue of Short-Termism; Issues Facing Australian Bioethicists

This article considers recent ethical topics in Australia relating to the health rights of children in the contexts of (1) detention centers, (2) vaccination, and (3) procreative liberty, within a wider framework of discussion of the competing rights of society, parents, the child, and future generations.