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    It is not the case that Children do not have a right to know their biological history on the basis of identity rights

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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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    • 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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