Is children’s wellbeing different from adults’ wellbeing?

Call generalism about children’s and adults’ wellbeing the thesis that the same theory of wellbeing applies to both children and adults. Our goal is to examine whether generalism is true. While this question has not received much attention in the past, it has recently been suggested that generalism...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Cormier, Andrée Anne, Rossi, Mauro
Format: article
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repository:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/42555
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/42555
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2019.1619354
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Wellbeing
Children
Generalism
Special goods of childhood
Children’s development
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Summary:Call generalism about children’s and adults’ wellbeing the thesis that the same theory of wellbeing applies to both children and adults. Our goal is to examine whether generalism is true. While this question has not received much attention in the past, it has recently been suggested that generalism is likely to be false and that we need to elaborate different theories of children’s and adults’ wellbeing. In this paper, we defend generalism against the main objections it faces and make a positive case for it.