Laurie paul believes that one cannot make a rational decision to start a family on the basis of what you think it would be like to have your own child because fact is one or a couple in consideration of the question has not done it before. In fact i think the real question one or a couple should be asking themselves is what is the chain reaction of either having a child or remaining childless. At that point their choice is decided which option is best fit for there current situation and future as possible new parents. Laurie feels that the way people go about making their decision follows the cultural norms of our society, where couples are encouraged to think carefully and clearly about what they want before deciding they want to start …show more content…
Laurie states there is a more realistic version of a decision- theoretic approach which calls a normative decision theory (pg3). A normative decision theory can capture norms for ordinary successful reasoning. This totally makes sense that we should “glean approximate values for our outcomes and apply the right decision theoretic rule, we can conform to the ordinary standard for rational decision-making”(pg 3). This way of decision making makes it very clear and realistic to the outcomes of having a child and being childless. Versus just thinking about what it would be like to have your own …show more content…
While Mary is a neuroscientist who knows all the facts in a complete physic about light, the human eye’s response to light with a wavelength between 600 and 800 nanometers and any relevant neuroscience (pg6). However, besides the color black and white she has never seen any other color before her first experience to see the color red. The reason laurie uses this experiment is to convey that Mary is strictly in a “epistemically impoverished position”. Laurie wants to make a point that if you do not know something is going to be like, you can 't know how it 's going to make you feel. Now I disagree partly in Mary’s case because she knows everything there is to know about the human eye and how it reacts and function. On the other hand, Mary made a choice to face an epistemically transformative experience and does not know and cannot know the value of the relevant phenomenal outcomes of her choice (pg 7). Laurie also goes into more detail about being epistemically transformative which is inaccessible to the knowers without the experience. The decision is difficult to make to have children because there 's no knowledge of the experience as to being positive to have a child or a negative. Epistemically transformation has a nesry tone to it for either decisions a person or couple makes. Laurie states that personal transformation changes what is like to be you. Having a child could cause a person
They believe the only issue is with the fertility clinic not doing their part in creating a sound environment that is geared developing a child not money centered. The third author’s outlook lead more towards providing counseling as a direction for the couple’s situation. They believe that its necessary to seek outside help to provide guidance on handling this matter. The stress, tension, and uncertainty that is arising in the individuals that are involves needs a middle man of a professional background to give insight them on how to handle these matters. The last author displayed his opinion as focuses more on incorporating all parties in the process of child birth. The author believes that everyone should not only consider the importance it has on one’s self, on the unborn, and
In Wade F. Horn’s article “Promoting Marriage as a Means of Promoting Fatherhood,” Horn discusses how having a child and being married is better for children because the father is more involved in the child’s life. Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas’s “Unmarried with Children,” on the other hand, takes the reader through Jen’s story about getting pregnant at a young age and deciding not to marry the father of her son. While both sources make appeals to emotion, reason, and character, Edin and Kefalas’s article makes more successful appeals and thus is the stronger argument.
...olden times, women were bound ‘only’ to do the domestic work, whereas men were entitled to do the foreign work. But now time has evolved, and women are indulging more in the professional arena. The pursuance time of the career and that to starting a family conflicts. Women have their priorities of pursuing their career first to acquire financial stability similarly like men and then settling down in the institution of marriage. Some women delay marriage and parenting because some of them are single girl child or are sister siblings so they have their own household and family responsibilities to look after. So they want to ensure a quality life for their parents and themselves. But there is a ‘ticking clock’ that places an additional burden on those wrestling with some important life decisions one of them being the most essential – the right time to have children.
At some point in a woman's life, she may think of the idea of having a child. Some young girls are taught at a young age that when she grows up, someday she can have a family of her own if she chooses. When I was a child, I remember my mother and other womanly influences telling me that when I'm older, I might have a family of my own; and in result of this, ever since I was little, I have planned out how many children I want to have, and my expectations of my family life. However, while many women see themselves having children someday, and understand the process of carrying a child, some women might be in the dark about the complications that can come along with pregnancy. Life can throw curve balls, and everything that may have been planned, and thought out clearly might not go as smoothly as expected. There are many complications that can occur from pregnancy for mom and baby. In fact, one of the most common complications to occur is Down syndrome. And while Down syndrome may be very common, many women are making the decision to abort their fetuses once they are aware of the disability.
...is a brilliant neuroscientist who, we suppose, knows all the physical facts concerning color vision. Additionally Mary has yet to have been exposed to color. She is instead forced to explore the world from a black and white room. Despite Mary’s knowledge of all of her physical facts, she is, until her release from the black and white room effectively colorblind. Upon her release Mary views red for the first. It is accepted by most that Mary will learn something when viewing color for the first time. Mainly what she learns is what it is like to view red. This being the case Jackson concludes the physicalist picture is inconsistent. First she had all the physical facts. Second she had deficit of experience. Lastly the argument concludes Mary’s previous knowledge was incomplete. If there is more than physical facts for Mary to learn Physicalism is false (Jackson 130).
Every day, an overwhelming amount of human beings’ lives are terminated. The culprit: unwanted pregnancies. Many woman are (not by choice), becoming pregnant as a result of unsafe sex, rape, and other things. So what is one to do when they discover that they’re pregnant? They have some alternatives: (1) have the child and raise it (2) have the child, then give it up for adoption (3) get an abortion. Sadly, many women choose alternative three, unaware of what they’re getting themselves into.
In 1950, 1 in 20 American women with children were unmarried, that number has risen to 1 in 3. The demographic studied is aware of social norms that would encourage young adults to have a stable income, get married and then have children and they agree that the economic positions they are in are not ideal to raise a child. Their behavior is deviant as they do not accept this traditional route and, instead, hastily jump into relationships and have children, seeing it as a “badge of honor” when their partner wants to have children with them. These women have limited economic opportunities and therefore see having children as a situation in which they “have nothing to lose” and when asked, said they do not feel that they had missed out on any opportunities. These young mothers also stated that they felt, for them, there would never be an ideal time to have children and that the timing in which they did have their children actually “saved”
A woman has the right to consider many options of dealing with unplanned pregnancies that may be a final burden they don’t want to take on during a time of hardship. Many women and young teens get pregnant at a time in their lives when they are still maturing and would rather terminate a pregnancy because they feel they are not ready for the added responsibility that a baby brings and want to continue getting an education with ease instead of the stresses of having to juggling on to many responsibilities all at once. “Being a single parent may interrupt careers and the ability to earn wages if complication occurs to take care of the household bills.” (Lowen, 2014). Because we live in a society that judges and places status on people some young mothers avoid becoming young single mothers of not having to deal with parental disapproval. “Lately abortions have been on the decline since the introduction of long-term contraceptives like intrauterine devices and may be also the recent recession and the economy's unpredictability.” (Eckholm, 2014). Thanks to adoption agencies instead of aborting...
In today’s world everyone is pressured to get married and have kids. Either by society, friends or family. When you’re in a relationship for a while the questions start to be asked such as “When are you getting married?” Once you’re married then the questions “When are you having kids?” are asked. Couples have an intense amount or pressure to start families. When the couple is finally ready to have kids after many failed attempts they find out they are incapable of producing children of their own. Which is the most devastating time a couple can go through. But if adoption doesn’t appeal to the couple, another option can be is surrogacy.
I would agree with L.A. Paul’s argument that having children is an epistemically transformative experience that makes it difficult (or, for her, rather impossible) to make a rational choice in regards to the decision to have children or not. However, her claim that it is impossible to make rational decision based on “projections about what it would be like for you to have a child” (Paul 149) is rather controversial, as, to a certain extent at least, considering different possible projections seems more reasonable than simply having a child without much forethought. I would agree that these considerations can never fully explain what the epistemically transformative experience will actually be like, but some testimony would seem more helpful
Finally, Stuart Rachels discusses the objections that do not agree with his opinion. Some think that it is a disastrous result that people do not have children because the whole world may become aging and human beings may not exist anymore and others mention that to bear children is a natural thing for human beings (Rachels, 2013). Aimed at different objections, Rachels has given the explanation. For example, he claims that his opinion is just to say that people should not have children, but do not forbid people to have children. In other words, to have children depends on the economic situation of
No person has an instinct to be a mother. We are constantly hearing the phrase ‘instinct’ and associating it with motherhood. However, this ‘instinct’ can be blamed more on the idea that all women should procreate as it was stated in the bible to “Be fruitful and multiple”. This idea further developed because before the 1880’s there were no functional contraceptives. So as Rollin so kindly put it,
The article that I researched regarding this area explores the reasons why women may be taking the steps to start a family without marriage, whether these pregnancies are planned or unplanned. The study was conducted using a couple of different methods including the National Survey of Family Growth and a Discrete-Time Hazard Model. “The National Survey of Family Growth is a periodic, nationally representative fertility survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Many individuals are taking the process of process of parental licensing into their own hands, despite their contributions being made up in mind only, however, it is thought that counts. One respective person believes that a restriction on having children should begin at the earliest stage of one’s life: birth. As soon as a child is born, doctors should “go in and turn off their spickets” (McRedmond). In the later stages of life, this would prevent several cases of teen pregnancies, seeing as though it would be an impossibility for women to get pregnant. Then, when a women eventually becomes ready enough to think about having children, they should go through a testing process, perhaps similar to Sherman’s ideas of interviews, writing, and demonstrations of capability. If they pass, they “get their spickets turned
Does everybody have the capacity to become a parent? All people need to know the needs of babies. It is a great responsibility to have a baby and it will change your life. People who want to become parents need to inform themselves and they should focus on giving a better life to their children. Not everyone has the ability to care for a child correctly and not everyone has the essentials that are needed as food money home and provide love. There are people waiting to have children and give them all the best they can and there are parents who abuse their children. Also having a child is a natural part of every human’s life but this doesn't mean all people have the capacity