genetic testing ethics

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Obviously this is a controversial area but there comes a time in your life when you think you have found “the one” and you want to settle down.

However it seems it’s everyone right to try and insulate them from future misery. You want to know what the future might hold, what sort of risks you might be running. Some people will say leave things to chance on the other hand some things can put so much strain on a relationship that it might be best to know what you might be getting into.

Could you ask your partner to take this test? Would it be a deal breaker if it came back positive?

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Obviously this is a controversial area but there comes a time in your life when you think you have found “the one” and you want to settle down.

However it seems it’s everyone right to try and insulate them from future misery. You want to know what the future might hold, what sort of risks you might be running. Some people will say leave things to chance on the other hand some things can put so much strain on a relationship that it might be best to know what you might be getting into.

Could you ask your partner to take this test? Would it be a deal breaker if it came back positive?

Would probably be cheaper and just as good for the relationship to say "Honey, I want you to sign this pre-nup that I can freely cheat on you if your BMI ever tops 25..."

 

[Bartelby]

Knowledge can be power, but in some cases it is simple cruelty. Damning someone to the knowledge that they will develop a disease like that is not something I could make peace with, that test is for the bravest of the brave.

 

[Fermata]

When I first read the title my mind immediately leapt to paternity testing. During a presentation I was at last year on genetic testing in Huntington's patients it was casually mentioned that rates of non-paternity would routinely be in the 10-15% range among various populations in the United States. If that were to be true then I cannot fathom why paternity testing is not more routine.

 

[Bartelby]

Interesting question Fermata. I expect on the individual level it's just too insulting to your partner to request a paternity test, and on the societal level it's one of those "hear no evil speak no evil" things. It is really in society's best interest for the dad to stick around and raise the kid whether it is his or not, so there is little incentive to spend more on tests. It is a really unsettling statistic though.

 

[Fermata]

It is really in society's best interest for the dad to stick around and raise the kid whether it is his or not, so there is little incentive to spend more on tests. It is a really unsettling statistic though.

It takes a big man to raise somebody else's kid. I don't think that sort of thing should be forced upon someone.

 

[Manicsleep]

It takes a big man to raise somebody else's kid. I don't think that sort of thing should be forced upon someone.

Edit...no comment. 😀

 

[Ibid]

@OPD 25? thats what I call a bit fussy.....

Interesting question Fermata. I expect on the individual level it's just too insulting to your partner to request a paternity test, and on the societal level it's one of those "hear no evil speak no evil" things. It is really in society's best interest for the dad to stick around and raise the kid whether it is his or not, so there is little incentive to spend more on tests. It is a really unsettling statistic though.

Given that one in every two hundred men alive today is related to Kenghis Khan, from that perspective it makes little difference who looks after whose children, especially if you project forward as well.

I would say children don't belong to anyone but themselves but everyone has a responsibility to all children, closely related or not.

I do feel that it is not that we are to stupid as humans to solve the challenges that we face. The trouble is that we spend so much of our time trying to have sex with each other it leaves very little left over for anything else.