ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates how important care is to the creation and development of new persons, a feminist ethics of care poses a serious challenge to egalitarian theories of justice that seek to eliminate or compensate brute luck. It looks at different proposals, most of them coming from feminist philosophers, concerning the distribution of care. Feminists from various disciplines have developed arguments to support the redistribution of the work of care through institutional mechanisms. Eva Kittay's Love's Labor why Rawls' theory of distributive justice should include dependency in the model of social relationships and take into account its relevance when counting the burdens and benefits of social cooperation. Failed care represents a particularly hard challenge to egalitarian ideals of distributive justice because legacies of bad care are very enduring, and their sources manifold. Social norms and expectations are a source of moral dilemmas of parenting, and therefore of failed care.
