Children on Demand The Ethics of Defying

Male and female infertility has risen over the past three decades throughout the Western world leading to millions of couples facing the prospect of childlessness. With the number of children available for adoption in Australia plummeting since its peak in the 1970s, many of these couples are resorting to reproductive technologies in their efforts to 'defy nature'.

Introduction	p. 1
Dealing with infertility	p. 12
Personal, Philosophical and Political Contexts	p. 23
Children and parents	p. 24
Nature and nurture: does biology affect identity?	p. 44
Reproduction and the state: protection, paternalism and prudence	p. 64
Non-Technological Responses to Childlessness	p. 85
Adoption: ancient and modern	p. 86
Can adoption be rehabilitated?	p. 105
Technological Responses to Childlessness	p. 123
The 'art' of artificial conception	p. 124
The perils of surrogacy: compassion and commercialism	p. 149
Making parents of the dead: is it such a bad idea?	p. 168
Caring for children or just defying nature?	p. 183
Notes	p. 202
Index	p. 213
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Children on Demand The Ethics of Defying Nature

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