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As I understand Professor Schoeman’s paper, he seems to be making three main points: (1) the usual analysis of parent-child relationships in terms of rights and obligations does not do justice to the nature of the relationship; (2) an analysis which realizes the importance of intimacy (i.e., relationships which involve sharing ourselves with others) in the parent-child relationship more adequately captures the essential nature of the relationship; and (3) relationships of intimacy, because they require privacy and autonomy, are best maintained and fostered when coercive state intervention is prevented.
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Pillote, J.H. (1982). Comment: Response to “Rights of Children, Rights of Parents, and the Moral Basis of the Family”. In: Cafagna, A.C., Peterson, R.T., Staudenbaur, C.A. (eds) Philosophy, Children, and the Family. Child Nurturance, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3473-6_22
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