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    Children do not have a right to know their biological his... — Carmelics
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    Children do not have a right to know their biological history on the basis of identity rights

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    • 1.Personal identity, as Locke and later Parfit argue, is constituted by psychological continuity and narrative self-construction, not biological lineage.
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    • 2.Legally recognized social relationships—not genetic origins—are the primary basis for the obligations and bonds that constitute meaningful familial identity.
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    • 3.Granting a right to biological knowledge on identity grounds would require genetic essentialism, a view that most contemporary philosophers of personal identity explicitly reject.
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    • 1.Rights claims require corresponding duty-bearers, and gamete donors who contract under anonymity cannot coherently be assigned retrospective disclosure duties.
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    • 2.MacCormick's interest theory of rights holds that a right is justified only when the underlying interest is weighty enough to impose duties on others; curiosity about biological origins does not meet this threshold.
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    • 1.Children have a right to an identity
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    • 2.A right to an identity does not entail a right to a particular kind of identity
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    • 3.An identity based primarily on historical biological ties is only one particular kind of identity
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    One strategy is to tie the right to know to the right to an identity. Here the argument is that individuals require genuine facts about their biological history in order to develop a proper personal identity (Ravitsky 2010). However, one response is that while children have a right to an identity, they do not have a right to a particular kind of identity, such as one based primarily on historical biological ties (Allen 1996). Another route is to argue that children have a right to be respected,
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