Should parental rights be allocated to the best available parent? Anca Gheaus has argued that they should and that the interests of those who might rear them are strictly irrelevant to their allocation. This discussion article defends the view that parents’ interests are relevant to parental rights, against this latest argument. I show that the Best Available Parent View, as stated, conflicts with the exclusion of parental interests, on which it allegedly rests. I show that by including parental interests we better explain how parental rights should be distributed and over a wider range of cases.

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不会有人请想想父母吗？

父母权利是否应该分配给最好的父母？Anca Gheaus 认为他们应该这样做，并且可能抚养他们的人的利益与他们的分配完全无关。这篇讨论文章捍卫了父母利益与父母权利相关的观点，反对这一最新论点。我表明，如前所述，最佳可用父母观点与排除父母利益相冲突，据称这是它所依据的。我表明，通过包含父母利益，我们可以更好地解释父母权利应该如何分配以及更广泛的案例。