Nurturing Minds

P Kyle Stanford —Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California-Irvine —joins Vance and Rachel to discuss his co-author study of people’s estimations of the dangers that unattended children face.

Listen to learn about:

Moralized judgments How norms about parental supervision of children may be shaped by gender and racial biases Whether it is possible to ratchet down our collective anxieties about leaving children unattended for even brief periods

No Child Left Alone: Moral Judgments about Parents Affect Estimates of Risk to Children

Black Dads Are Do...

Samantha L. Tornello—Associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State and parent of 2—joins Vance and Rachel to discuss their research on how LGBTQ couples divide housework and childcare.

Listen to learn about:

Simone de Beauvoir and Dorothy Gale from Kansas agreed that housework is torture How families divide up gendered work at home differently depending on the parents’ genders Communication as key to satisfaction with the division of housework and childcare—and why that satisfaction matters more than who does what

https://pure.psu.edu/en/publications/transgender-and-gender-non-binary-parents-pathways-to-parenthood

This epi...

This is the second of our two-part conversation with special guests Tiffany Holland and Maria Rosales about multiple pathways to parenthood, including some of the ones that they took.

Special guests Tiffany Holland and Maria Rosales, who have appointed each of us as parts of their chosen family, talk to us about multiple pathways to parenthood, including some of the ones that they took.

Special guest expert Amy Reed-Sandoval helps us understand what philosophy for children is, and why parents (and the rest of us) ought to encourage children's philosophical interests.

Special guest expert Selena Wolf-Berkley helps us understand racism as a social determinant of health during pregnancy and childbirth, and how we can make institutional changes to better support pregnant people and their families.

 

Who are we?  Why are we here?

In the pilot episode of Nurturing Minds, co-hosts Rachel and Vance briefly introduce themselves and discuss parenthood and childhood as topics of philosophical interest and importance.

Listen to learn about:
• Modern-day philosophical views of what makes someone a parent
• An argument for anti-natalism (the view that it’s bad to be born or to cause someone else to be born)
• Why parents and children might have obligations or responsibilities to each other
• Why societies might have responsibilities to parents and (separately) to children

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