Do you owe more to family than you do to other people? But what is family? If you think about adopting a child, should you think first how it will affect the children you already have? Should you consider equally the welfare of the child you might adopt?

Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her subjects have included John Ashbury, Derek Parfit, Noam Chomsky, and Barack Obama, among others. Her book Strangers Drowning: Grappling with extreme idealism, drastic choices, and the overpowering urge to help will be published by Penguin in the fall of 2015.

 

 

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Respondents:   Peter Singer, Princeton University