Saplings or Caterpillars? Trying to Understand Children's Wellbeing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8064803 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Tomlin (0000-0002-6258-2988, Department of Politics and International Relations University of Reading Whiteknights Reading RG6 6AA UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 29-46 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Applied Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-3758 • E-ISSN: 1468-5930 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/japp.12204 |
| OpenAlex | W2293704677 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 1 |
Is childhood valuable? And is childhood as, less, or more, valuable than adulthood? In this article I first delineate several different questions that we might be asking when we think about the ‘value of childhood’, and I explore some difficulties of doing so. I then focus on the question of whether childhood is good for the person who experiences it. I argue for two key claims. First, if childhood wellbeing is measured by the same standards as adulthood, then children are worse off than adults. Second, if childhood and adulthood wellbeing are measured by different standards, then we cannot compare them, and children are neither better off nor worse off than adults. This has some counter‐intuitive implications, such as that we do not harm persons by depriving them of a childhood, nor by keeping them as children for elongated periods
Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Harm · Value (mathematics · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Adultos inacabados y niños defectuosos
Being a Child
Wakefield’s harmful dysfunction analysis of disorder and the problem of defining harm to nonsentient organisms
Are Adults and Children One Another’s Moral Equals
Old Age as a Stage of Life
Does the Same Theory of Welfare Apply to All Welfare Subjects
Justice for Girls
Children’s well-being and vulnerability
Family values reconsidered
Childhood bads, parenting goods, and the right to procreate
The Child’s Right to a Voice
Is children’s wellbeing different from adults’ wellbeing
Childhood
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |