The Foundations of Flourishing and Our Responsibility to Infants : : An Ethical and Evidence-Based Case to Challenge the Societal Acceptance of Childcare.

Neuroscientific evidence reveals that childcare centres are high stress environments which can disrupt the brain's emotional developmental circuitry during critical phases, impacting a child's later ability to flourish. At the same time evidence also reveals that some parenting practices a...

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Place / Publishing House:Bradford : : Ethics International Press Limited,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Evidence
  • Attachment Theory
  • Neuroscientific Evidence
  • Chapter 2 Childcare, and Mothers and Fathers
  • Childcare
  • Mothers and Fathers
  • Chapter 3 Obligations to Children and Ourselves
  • Obligations to Children
  • Autonomy
  • Chapter 4 Love
  • What Love Confers
  • Duty to Love
  • The Components of Love
  • Expansiveness of Love
  • Chapter 5 Flourishing
  • Flourishing
  • Attributes of Flourishers
  • Chapter 6 Liberalism
  • The Liberal State and its Role Regarding Children
  • Public and Private Spheres
  • Nozick's Liberalism
  • Kant
  • Mill
  • Capitalism
  • Chapter 7 Feminism and Motherhood
  • Feminism
  • Difference Feminism
  • Motherhood
  • Background
  • Motherhood Today
  • Chapter 8 An Ethics of Social, Emotional, and Moral Wellbeing
  • Ethics of Care
  • Slote's Ethics of Care and Empathy
  • Gilligan's Reframing of the Ethics of Care
  • An Alternative Autonomy
  • The Ethics of Social, Emotional, and Moral Wellbeing
  • Families
  • Chapter 9 Policy Issues
  • The State
  • Practical Problems
  • Career
  • Remuneration
  • Superannuation
  • Education
  • Lack of Status and Respect
  • Developing Solutions Through Policy
  • Career
  • Remuneration
  • Family
  • Value of Motherhood
  • Superannuation
  • Education
  • Supporting Families
  • Communities
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.