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Can we find some way to keep
both morality as impartiality
and special parental obligations?
As it turns out, this is not difficult.
We can say that impartiality requires us
to treat people in the same way
under no relevant differences between them.
This qualification is obviously needed,
quite apart from any considerations
about parents and children.
For example, it is not a failure of impartiality
to imprison a convicted criminal
while innocent citizens go free,
because there is a relevant difference between them
to which we can appeal to justify
```the difference in treatment.
Other examples come easily to mind.
But once we have admitted this qualification,
we can make use of it
to solve our problem about parental obligations.
The fact that a child is one’s own
can be taken as providing
the “relevant difference” that
justifies treating it differently.