Publisher's Synopsis
"This book, to be published in the Moral Traditions series, aims to overcome currently accepted Catholic frameworks for conceptualizing parenthood and to provide new foundations for a more robust theological reflection on parenthood. It begins by arguing that contemporary official Catholic accounts of parenthood are highly influenced by matters of sexual ethics and ideologies of gender that obscure consideration of parenthood in its own right. In addition, even as revisionist scholars have challenged specific Church teachings, they too have largely accepted the grounds for debate asserted within magisterial documents. While sexual and reproductive ethics are important, the unwitting consensus that theological consideration of parenthood ought to hinge on these matters has diverted attention from the actual practices of parenthood viewed in their entirety throughout the life course and within the complex negotiations of kinship and careg
