 Other theories provide more plausible support for parent-centered, as opposed to child-centered, accounts of parental rights in terms of parents’ interests. Brighouse and Swift argue for parental rights on the basis of the irreplaceable good offered by parenting. Because parenting is a project with goods which cannot be obtained through other activities, such as the responsibility of caring for a child and the receipt of children’s spontaneous trust, affection, and intimacy, the interest in parenting should be protected. On this account, parental rights, not parental obligations, are fundamental, because the parents’ interests are the basis for the right (Brighouse and Swift 2006, 2014; see also Shoeman 1980). One line of objection is to ask whether the interest in parenting is likely to be undermined by state intervention in parental decision-making. Here we can usefully distinguish at least three different kinds of parental interests which could ground parental rights to control aspects of their children’s lives: interests in being a fiduciary, interests in intimacy, and interests in “nurturing, counseling, and education.” Intimacy and being a fiduciary, which Brighouse and Swift appeal to, arguably need not be undermined by intervention – whereas an interest in authentically nurturing children into adults might (Altman 2018).