The essay “Building Baby from the Genes Up” by Ronald M. Green explains how in the future, parents might be able to design the genes of their future baby. Green supports genetic engineering of embryos, “why not improve our genome?” (549). He thinks that with the process of in vitro and preimplantation, it could eliminate disease or confer desirable features onto our future. Some medical professionals is concerned about the effect of genetic selection in parenting, Green said “The critics concerns may be less troublesome than they appear”, he thinks that parents will not love their children any less in the quest of perfection, and any kids will not be pressured to live up to perfectionist and expectation.…
People strive for progression in order to move forward with the changing times. As scientific technology progresses, people begin to move towards the bright idea of perfection. This could be seen in the concept of designer babies. A designer baby is a baby that has its genes specifically chosen in order to ensure that a certain gene is or is not present. This concept brings about many questions regarding the safety and the ethics of choosing specific traits for a child. The articles “The art of medicine: Designer babies: Choosing our children's genes,” by Bonnie Steinbock and “Children to…
Many families are faced with different health problems in young children. But for most children these problems are mild, they come and go, and they do not interfere with their daily life and development. For some children, however, chronic health conditions affect everyday life throughout their childhood. Learning to live with a chronic condition can be very challenging for a child, for parents, and for siblings and friends. Based on the scenario I have read Edward and Susan are faced with a situation concerning there child’s health. Fortunately, they have a chance to fix things in their case. In this essay I will identify the central ethical issue present in this case. Also I will provide research supporting the ethical issues, and compare and contrast available solutions. Finally, I will apply two ethical theories to reach a resolution of the central ethical issue.…
“One health epidemic at the forefront of public consciousness is autism, a grain disorder that impairs a person’s ability to communicate, socialize and participate in group behavior.” In reading about autism, the diagnostic criteria require that symptoms become apparent before a child is three years old. As stated in Wikpedia under Autism, [2] Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood. [3] Some say that Autism has a strong genetic basis, although the genetics of autism are complex and it is unclear whether ASD is explained more by rare mutations, or by rare combinations of common genetic variants. [5] In rare cases, autism is strongly associated with agents that cause birth defects. [6] Controversies surround other proposed environmental causes, such as heavy metals, pesticides or childhood vaccines.…
such a means to raise kids many parents would produce perfect children. Many parents strive to…
Some children may suffer from or be more prone to a condition that may make progress difficult. Some conditions that children are born with such as diabetes or a blood condition affect children from early on and have sever ramifications on their lives from birth. Other conditions may appear later, such as asthma, which children are more susceptible to if they live in areas where the air condition is poor, they live in damp conditions or whose parents smoke. These conditions and many others have an effect on a child’s development as feeling unwell can make them less inclined to play, or their condition may restrict what they can do. Children with such conditions may feel isolated as they may be unable to enjoy some of the same activities of…
A genetic test “will not indicate the severity or even if the disease will manifest itself” (“Genetic”), in consequence a healthy person whose illness was not meant to appear until ten or twenty years later can fall into depression because of a test. The stress from waking up the next day and having to deal with, possibly deadly, symptoms can cause the development of a weak body (Kjono). A healthy person can easily generate less problematic diseases that, added together, will weaken a body that could have been healthier if their self-esteem had not been altered.…
Pervasive disorders include: Classic Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Rhett Syndrome, and Pervasive Development Disorder NOS (not otherwise specified). Historically, autism was identified in the 1940s and was interconnected with schizophrenia. Dr. Coplan stated, “Prior to 1980, physicians use the term childhood schizophrenia to cover a vast range of disorders, from delusions and hallucinations to what we now call ASD.” (2010, p. 85) Children can be diagnosed with autism or ASD by a licensed professional such as a psychologist, psychiatrist, or therapist who can also identify and complete a multidisciplinary evaluation for children as well. These professionals utilize interviews with the child, parent/caregiver, observation and evaluations. Evaluations can include the use of the DSM-IV, the Social Communication Questionnaire, Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Gilliam Autism Rating Scales, and Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised. “These tests may take the form of either parent completing rating scales for interviews, or they may need to be based on actual work of the child.” (Volkmar & Wiesner, 2009, p. 68)The parents will usually be the first to notice something is not quite right in their child’s development, by noticing the child does not respond to their name, there is no ‘baby talk” or babbling, and…
What if when your mother saw you for the first time, she did not resemble you at all. If everyone in your family had one certain phenotype, and you came out with another. At the end of the day that's fine as long as it was done naturally. Is there an unnatural way of doing this? Indeed, this is a term we like to call designer babies. Usually during this process selected genes are added into an embryo of an unborn child outside the stomach of the mother. This is not yet legal, but the technology for it is upon us, but why would any parent want to do this? They might not fear the risks but they may have insecurities, and might know that their child will be born with an illness.…
There's never been a baby that is perfect, and there never will be. Actually maybe there is a way to get the perfect baby! Introducing, Designer Babies, the revolutionary new way to get the perfect way to edit the babies genes to your liking! Scientist have developed a way in which it allows the parents of the child to choose what their baby will turn out to be, for example, what if that a parent wanted their baby to be a boy, then just edit some of those genes and, there it is, a boy. There are multiple reasons why "Designer Babies" can make a positive impact on a child's life and how it will benefit the future.…
Learning difficulties,poor problem-solving skills. Some physical defects may include the underdeveloped groove between the nose and the upper lip,deformities of joints, limbs and fingers,slow physical growth before and after birth,vision difficulties or hearing problem,small head circumference and brain size, and heart defects and problem with kidneys and bones. Symptoms can be inside as well like poor coordination or balance, intellectual disability, learning disorders and delayed development, poor memory, trouble with attention and with processing information, difficulty with reasoning and problem-solving, difficulty identifying consequences of choices, poor judgment skills, jitteriness or hyperactivity, and rapidly changing moods. Something these kids would have social and behavioral issues like difficulty in school, trouble getting along with others, poor social skills, trouble adapting to change or switching from one task to another, problems with behavior and impulse control, poor concept of time,difficulty planning or working toward a goal.…
Lewis Thomas once said, "As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body" (Scrapbook.com). Diseases found in genes can most likely not be able to be put off, as they are heredity, in which case they are passed down from their parents, or a mutation, an irreversible change in the DNA sequence of a gene. People have no control over their probability of receiving this problem in their genes or not, even if they are always very concerned or cautious about their health. One hereditary problem found in a person's genes is Osteogenesis…
Even when the diagnosis of a child is correct, the kind of myopic thinking that overrelies on labels promotes terrible consequences to the child’s self esteem and sociability. “Once a diagnostic label is applied, it is often understood so rigidly that many potential treatments are ignored (or disallowed by insurers)…” The stigma surrounding that child’s label may distort the child’s self-perception and begin to view himself as being different or “defective” from the rest of his classmates. In the case of…
birth defects and death can be prevented, should we not present hardship to them even…
The pressure to be perfect is basically what young girls think, or perceive how they are supposed to dress, look, even think, in order to get by in this society. They think they have to be super skinny like a model, or dress like all the famous celebrities are wearing, or ever listen to certain music to be labeled as "cool." This is a really bad problem in our society because it can lead to starving one self, stealing, body damage, and sometimes even death. Young girls these days tend to look up to Barbie. They think if they had blond hair and blue eyes, or light skin and a tiny waist, they would be considered beautiful. Which is so wrong, because everyone is beautiful.…