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Christian Bioethics Advance Access originally published online on July 20, 2009
Christian Bioethics 2009 15(2):199-208; doi:10.1093/cb/cbp012
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of The Journal of Christian Bioethics, Inc. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

This article appears in the following Christian Bioethics issue: Diakonia II: Care-Taking in the Medical Realm and its Political Implementation [View the issue table of contents]

Problematic Ideas about Caring: A Mother's Bioethical Notes from Australia

Selena R. Judd

Address correspondence to: E-mail: judd.s.r.7{at}gmail.com


  Abstract

Contemporary ideas about caring in welfare states can wreak havoc if applied to one's own life. In this essay, a mother offers a personal commentary on the debate regarding diakonia and caring. She identifies three concepts, popular in contemporary caring discourse, that threaten her ability to genuinely and effectively care for those around her, particularly her family. The first problematic concept is that the state ought to provide care on our behalf. The second is that people have rights to claim, but no one in particular bears the responsibility. The third is that the Church is responsive rather than normative in the social setting.

Keywords: aged care, caring, diakonia, motherhood


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