Mental health affects how a person feels, thinks, and acts. Emotional disorders are significantly impacting people’s lives in many ways. Psychological illness can challenge a person with coping skills, earning a living, and relating to others. A combination of biological, psychological, environmental, and genetic factors is the cause of mental disorders. Some of the major mental illnesses such as autism, ADHD, major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are genetic disorders and can be inherited. If both parents or one of the parents diagnosed with one of the genetic mental health illnesses, the chance of developing or passing on a genetic condition to their children are high. Estimating the chances of inherited mental diseases can be complicated,
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They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution” (un.org, 2018). Forcing a person to complete genetic testing for possible mates before being allowed to marry someone and have children with them is unacceptable. It interferes with human rights, morality, and human dignity. I think that genetic testing should be a choice. In my viewpoint, the genetic testing is an incredible attribute to our future that can help parents to avoid, prevent, or give treatment options for children with congenital disabilities.
Genetic testing is a relatively new field and currently emerging in public health perspective. The considerable debate around genetic testing is bringing moral and ethical implications posed by the growing availability of predictive genetic tests. Diagnostic, and carrier predictive testing can determine not only mental illnesses, but other life-threatening conditions like sickle cell disease, phenylketonuria, cystic fibrosis, breast cancer, Down’s syndrome, and
They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution” (un.org, 2018). Forcing a person to complete genetic testing for possible mates before being allowed to marry someone and have children with them is unacceptable. It interferes with human rights, morality, and human dignity. I think that genetic testing should be a choice. In my viewpoint, the genetic testing is an incredible attribute to our future that can help parents to avoid, prevent, or give treatment options for children with congenital disabilities.
Genetic testing is a relatively new field and currently emerging in public health perspective. The considerable debate around genetic testing is bringing moral and ethical implications posed by the growing availability of predictive genetic tests. Diagnostic, and carrier predictive testing can determine not only mental illnesses, but other life-threatening conditions like sickle cell disease, phenylketonuria, cystic fibrosis, breast cancer, Down’s syndrome, and