Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.
Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.
There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.
The point to have a child is to introduce them to this planet that is in some ways dying and hopefully, this new generation, these new untainted brains, will be the people to fix some of these things that this generation can't.
Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.
I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.
DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What will it mean when we can be sure we're not all born equal? Worked out, the implications will scare a lot of people. Insurance companies will not want to cover those with a genetic predisposition to illness, for example. Here lurk myriad lawsuits.
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.
Being an only child is a disease in itself.