The Constitutional Parent: Rights, Responsibilities, and the by Jeffrey Shulman
By Jeffrey Shulman
Shulman’s illuminating account of yankee felony heritage is of greater than educational interest. If once more we deal with parenting as a designated responsibilityas a sacred belief, no longer a sacred rightwe won't all succeed in an analogous criminal prescriptions, yet we'd be extra prepared to contemplate how favourite rules of kin legislation can successfully accommodate the evolving pursuits of father or mother, baby, and state.
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Locke’s real interest lies well beyond the distinction between paternal and parental power. His business is more radical, though distinguishing the power of the father from the power of the parent would be consequential enough. It is to demonstrate the difference between parental power and parental right. 4 In Locke’s view, the fact that the mother enjoys an equal share in parental authority is evidence that such power is not absolute. The power of parents bears the name of “Absolute Dominion, and Regal Authority” because we forget that that power is not wholly appropriated to the father.
81 41 Parenting as a Sacred Trust This mélange of educational theory and Protestant moral injunction would raise questions of freedom and authority that were both personal and political. ”82 Gordon Wood likewise points to the popular didactic literature of the era as attesting to the metamorphosis of the “true” parent from biological progenitor to moral preceptor: “Being a parent was no longer simply a biological fact; it was also a cultural responsibility. . [A] child’s true parents were not his blood relatives, but those moral preceptors [like Fénelon’s Mentor] who shaped his mind and raised him to become a reasoning moral adult in a corrupt and complex world.
No doubt suspect to a modern temperament, reflecting as they do historical prejudices about class, race, and ethnicity,34 apprenticeship laws also express a genuine concern for children who were perceived to be disadvantaged. The well-being of children, however understood or misunderstood, was a matter of deep public interest, linked closely to the welfare of the state. 35 Because it derives from the duty entrusted to him, the power of the parent is only as great as is needed to secure the child’s welfare.