ABSTRACT
A woman with the mental age of a three-year-old should not become a mother; and in view of her disability, it is incumbent upon others to rule on the matter. The one child policy of the People's Republic of China may well appear draconian, but within the context of the daunting task of accommodating one and a quarter billion people, it may well have a measure of justifiability. One familiar argument for the justification of parents' rights is that advocated by Ferdinand Schoeman, and stems from a parent's interest in forming intimate relationships with his children. Since 1996 parents in England and Wales have had the right to remove their children from sex education, except to the extent that the subject is covered in science lessons as required by the National Curriculum. Injustice is compounded when parents opt for private education, the existence of which contributes not one jot to the enhancement of a parent-child relationship.
