CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Engler, Sebastian |
|---|---|
| Title | Children, Custody, and the Costs of Promoting Gender Justice |
| Summary | In this thesis, I argue that in gender-unjust social circumstances, considerations of gender justice should bear on the determination of the post-separation allocation of custody over children. Given unjust gender norms about childrearing within a society, promoting gender justice offers a compelling reason in favour of allocating custody gender-equally on a societal level. This view faces two major difficulties which I address. First, at least sometimes, gender-equal custody allocation will not track the moral right to parent a child. But we have a weighty reason to allocate custody to the holder(s) of the moral right to parent. Therefore, I argue that considerations of gender justice can outweigh the reason we have to allocate custody to the holder(s) of the moral right to parent a child. Second, shared custody can impose net costs (in terms of how well their lives go) on the relevant parties. In particular, it can impose costs on children. Therefore, I defend the claim that it is at least sometimes permissible to make children bear some of the costs of promoting gender justice. |
| Supervisor | Gheaus, Anca |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/engler_sebastian.pdf |
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