Parental Love Pills: Some Ethical Considerations

S. Matthew Liao

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01796.x

Parental Love Pills: Some Ethical Considerations

S. Matthew Liao

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Abstract

It may soon be possible to develop pills that allow parents to induce in themselves more loving behaviour, attitudes and emotions towards their children. In this paper, I consider whether pharmacologically induced parental love can satisfy reasonable conditions of authenticity; why anyone would be interested in taking such parental love pills at all, and whether inducing parental love pharmacologically promotes narcissism or results in self-instrumentalization. I also examine how the availability of such pills may affect the duty to love a child.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	489-494
Number of pages	6
Journal	Bioethics
Volume	25
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01796.x
State	Published - Nov 2011

Keywords

Duty to love
Parent love
Psychopharmacology
Right of children to be loved

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science)
Philosophy
Health Policy

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