"Is having a loving family an unfair advantage?"

From Australia's national broadcaster, ABC, April 30, 2015:

Plato famously wanted to abolish the family and put children into care of the state. Some still think the traditional family has a lot to answer for, but some plausible arguments remain in favour of it. Joe Gelonesi meets a philosopher with a rescue plan very much in tune with the times.

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So many disputes in our liberal democratic society hinge on the tension between inequality and fairness: between groups, between sexes, between individuals, and increasingly between families.

I don’t think parents reading their children bedtime stories should constantly have in their 

minds the way that they are unfairly disadvantaging other people’s children, but I think they 

should have that thought occasionally.

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We've mentioned this story a few times. Even though I read it years ago, and have re-read it since, I can never remember the title. I always remember the story itself because it was the first time I came across  a certain approach to equality/inequality. But not the title....