title: If you must make babies, then at least make the best babies you can?
abstract: This article provides an overview of the reasons why people should or should not have children, and of two attempts to define what we can do to make sure that the lives of the children we have are as good as they can be. It is suggested that the answers to these questions are more complex than we tend to think, and that rational arguments can be found to support many mutually conflicting reproductive policies.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. mhayry@uclan.ac.uk
authors.forename: Matti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Häyry
mesh_terms: D026689:Ethical Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000502:physiology*; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology*; D043762:Reproductive Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D012941:Social Responsibility