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The article delves into the significance of stepparent-stepchild relationships, advocating for the recognition of stepparents as moral parents. It challenges societal norms that prioritize biological or adoptive parents and proposes a moral commitment account of parenthood that includes stepparents. The text explores various forms of parenting, including biological, step, and surrogate parenting, while addressing ethical implications such as gamete donation and custody issues. The article provides a comprehensive examination of the complexities surrounding parenthood and emphasizes the importance of gestational ties over genetic connections. [Extracted from the article]

We vindicate the widespread intuition that there is something morally problematic with for-profit corporations providing care to young children and elders. But instead of putting forward an empirical argument showing that for-profit corporations score worse than not-for-profits when it comes to meeting the basic needs of these vulnerable groups, we develop a philosophical argument about the nature of the relationship between a care organisation, its role-occupants, and care recipients. We argue that the correlation between profit and lower-quality care is a result of intrinsic features of a for-profit model, combined with conceptual features of meaningful caring relationships, such that non-profits are the most reliable institutional providers of adequate care. Our claim is that care requires a kind of commitment that for-profit institutions are constituted to avoid, and that non-profit institutions are constituted to embrace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I investigate the relationship between carefreeness and the valuable goods that constitute a good childhood. I argue that carefreeness is necessary for children to develop positive affective responses to worthwhile projects and relationships, and so is necessary for children to endorse the valuable goods in their lives. One upshot of my discussion is that a child who is allowed to play, who receives an adequate education, and who has loving parents, but who lacks the psychological disposition of carefreeness leads an impoverished life, even if she might lead a good life in adulthood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]