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.
Oxford University, UK. matthew.liao@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
S Matthew
SM
Liao
D000818:Animals; D026688:Bioethical Issues; D002648:Child; D004358:Drug Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008149:Love; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations