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Suing Your Parents

Leaders 4 Social Change Task Forces

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Find Your Slide

Use Your Breakout Room Number as Your Group Number

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Step 01

List Members

Choose one person to keep time, one person to take notes, and list everyone on top.

Step 02

Discuss & Record

Everyone share some initial thoughts and think through all the questions. Jot some key points.

Step 03

Indicate Your Status

Green, Yellow, or Red to indicate how willing you are to jumpstart the whole-group discussion

Step 04

The instructor will make a copy of each slide for each breakout group in the class.

How To Use

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  1. Before you begin, research information about Raphael Samuel, anti-natalism, and the non-identity problem. Find information about when people consider it acceptable to sue parents for giving birth to a child that feels they would have been better off without being born.
  2. Then, try to come up with a plan for when you believe children should be able to sue a parent for giving birth to them.
    1. Should age matter? At what age should children be able to sue their parents?
    2. Is it acceptable if the parents passed down hereditary diseases that diminished the child’s quality of life?
    3. Is it acceptable if the parents subjected the child to emotional or physical abuse?
    4. When is it not acceptable?
    5. How will you justify your decisions?
  3. Think through the possible objections about your decisions that someone might have.
  4. Share with the group and see if you can convince them that your ideas contain the proper guidelines for when a child should be able to sue a parent for giving birth to them.

Steps

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Group #1

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