ABSTRACT
In some cases, parental efforts to shape their children are motivated not only by the desire that their children be like them, but also by the desire to perpetuate the parent's values, culture, religion, and way of life. According to Brighouse and Swift, some parental shaping of the child's values is an inevitable by-product of the parent's sharing of herself with the child—a sharing that is itself in the best interest of the child because it provides vital relationship goods to the child. According to the bullet-biting approach, a child born in a non-identity situation can only be harmed if her impairments make her life not worth living. A child of Catholic parents will almost inevitably learn more about Eucharist than the Hadj. Normal cognitive development requires that children have some sort of initial sense of how the world works—a sense that may well include elements of a particular comprehensive doctrine.
