By Jack C. Westman, M.D., CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2013
“Dr. Weston’s well-research, bold proposal focusing on how to give our children the best start in life by having every birth mother and father sign a Parenthood Pledge deserves to be widely-debated. This shift from human rights to include human responsibilities is upon us as the human family reaches almost 8 billion and we are now causing planet-wide changes . Similarly, our traditional view that parenthood is a right, with little thought about how well we raise our children, belongs to a bygone era. Our culture’s obsession with money, success and economic growth as measured by money in GDP takes little heed of the heavy social costs we bear when children are abandoned , mistreated , mis-educated or left to become wards of the state. Dr. Weston’s proposal will no doubt be controversial, but I hope that it is given a wide and fair hearing. It fits well with the proposals of the Caring Economy Campaign to properly account for the benefits to our society and economy of investing more in our children, since they are our future.”
Dr. Hazel Henderson, President, Ethical Markets Media; author, Building A Win-Win World and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy