
PARENTAL LOVE PILLS: SOME ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
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.
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Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University
Publication date: 01 November 2011