Privatized adoption has long been seen as an act of selflessness, but in more recent years, issues have arisen about the ethics of how the private adoption industry operates. Many worry that these adoption agencies allow for the “shopping” of children, filtering by race, disability, sex, and age, and that agencies may take advantage of women who may struggle to care for their kids to allow them to be adopted instead. Proponents of the industry say that it is an efficient way to give kids in need families.

Privatized adoption has long been seen as an act of selflessness, but in more recent years, issues have arisen about the ethics of how the private adoption industry operates. Many worry that these adoption agencies allow for the “shopping” of children, filtering by race, disability, sex, and age, and that agencies may take advantage of women who may struggle to care for their kids to allow them to be adopted instead. Proponents of the industry say that it is an efficient way to give kids in need families.

In vitro fertilization (IVF) has allowed for many women to become mothers where they otherwise would not have been able to. However, this has led to many issues arising, such as the case of Adrea Patel, who went to an IVF center, had the wrong embryos implanted, and was then sued by the genetic parents of the children and forced to hand over custody. These errors, along with IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies, have come to redefine parenthood as it is known.

With the continuation of COVID-19 into the 2020-2021 school year, people were divided on whether or not K-12 students would be virtual or in-person. People argued that because of the low risk that children faced from the virus, it was safe to send them back to school. Some parents need a safe place to send their children while they work. Still, many argued that while children have less risk, much is still unknown about the virus's long term effects, and that adults would have to gather in order to teach the children.

Project Provention aims to stop drug addicts from having kids due to the negative stigma of how they treat their children. There are a number of critics u[on this topic, due to the fact that the project seems to be taking advantage of people when they are in no shape to make the judgement of sterilization or not. Is it wrong to offer this to someone going through a drug addiction? Do drug addicts hold an obligation tot their potential children to get better first?

17 year old Cassandra, battling Hodgkin's lymphoma, refuses to take chemotherapy due to the harmful toxic chemicals not being worth the decrease in life quality. Her family and her would rather explore other options, but since she is a minor and that decision will likely lead to her death, Supreme Court has the power to deny her opinion, forcing her to undertake chemo. Is it morally correct to force such a decision upon a minor, even if it's her life and she doesn't agree with it?

In recent years, several controversies have arisen over racial and ethnic matching between parents and children in adoptions. Despite the fact that laws often prohibit such racial and ethnic matching on the grounds that it is discriminatory, supporters of matching continue to argue that adopted children are better off when placed with parents from the same racial or ethnic background. What rights do would-be parents have when it comes to adopting children?

Brandy was just accepted to law school but isn't sure if she should attend. She also deeply wants to be a stay-at-home mother, and she and her partner want to have children right away. She is deeply divided by these two options but her friend Wynona thinks it's obvious that Brandy should go to law school. If she didn't, she would throw away an important opportunity, she would be wasting her talents, and she would be betraying feminists who fought to expand opportunities for women. What values are at stake in this debate? Is the decision about what career path to pursue a purely personal decision?

Gilbert and Anne are getting ready to send their son to kindergarten, but they are conflicted about whether to send him to a new public charter school or to a traditional public school. The charter school seems to offer many more advantages, but Gilbert and Anne know that if they send Fred to the charter school, the traditional public school system will lose some funding as a result. They very much value a strong public education system and don't want to be implicated in harming it individually or systemically. Is it morally appropriate for them to put their child's interests over the interests of other children?