PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ezio Di Nucci
TI  - I love my children: am I racist? On the wish to be biologically related to one’s children
AID  - 10.1136/medethics-2017-104213
DP  - 2018 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 814--816
VI  - 44
IP  - 12
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/44/12/814.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/44/12/814.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2018 Dec 01; 44
AB  - Is the wish to be biologically related to your children legitimate? Here, I respond to an argument in support of a negative answer to this question according to which a preference towards having children one is biologically related to is analogous to a preference towards associating with members of one’s own race. I reject this analogy, mainly on the grounds that only the latter constitutes discrimination; still, I conclude that indeed a preference towards children one is biologically related to is morally illegitimate because, in the context of parental love, biological considerations are normatively irrelevant.