The Value of Life and the Cost of Living – Damages for Wrongful Birth (Staple Inn Reading 2001)

Hale,

British Actuarial Journal, 2001, vol. 7, issue 5, 747-763

Abstract: The lecture begins by outlining the differences in lifetime earnings between men and women, and between women with different levels of skill and with different numbers of children. It continues with a discussion on wrongful conception and wrongful birth, and the legal implications when damages are sought when children are born who were not meant to have been born. Many examples of claims for damages brought before the courts, over a period of time, are used to illustrate various aspects of this. Cases concerning both healthy and disabled children are discussed, and the changes that occur for all women who have given birth and the mother's responsibility of care are considered.

Date: 2001
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