All three of these situations are known as designing your baby, and yet this poses a lot of controversy for those with and without children. Overall, the social aspects of the designer babies are that it enforces social standards of beauty and what’s considered the ideal human. Take a look at China and India, for example, have had a catastrophic sex ratio imbalance since 2005 when it was considered most devastating. The MIT Press Journals concluded data from the continents to determine how unearthing the sex ratio imbalance really is; Asia has the greatest imbalance, as taken from 2001 data from the U.S Bureau of Census, International Database. It shows that there approximately 1.9 billion males to 1.8 billion females (104.2 ratio). Of course
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Tradition can be a stubborn force, slow to die or change” (MIT Press Journals). Going into specific countries, China and India have the most imbalance. The report states that there are 653 million males to 612 females; in small cities this isn’t as large of an issue but as the number keeps growing it’s almost unrepairable. India is similar with 508 million males to 471 million females.The journal notes “Zeng Yi, director of the Demography In- stitute at Beijing University, freely admits, ‘The loss of female births due to il-legal prenatal sex determination and sex-selective abortion and female infanticide will affect the true sex ratio at birth and at young ages, creating an unbalanced population sex structure in the future and resulting in potentially serious social problems.”’(MIT Press Journals). Of course some countries have surpluses of males, but the main focus is how so many children are put up for adoption or are aborted once they are determined they are female. It’s this unethical treatment that is enforced by ancient family values and patriarchal leaders in Asia. Though the problems are on the track to be reversed, it’s something that may take decades if not centuries to rebalance. Google Trend data shows that searches that read how to have a baby girl are significantly higher in North America than searches for how to have a baby boy. Americans see a growing desire for females though …show more content…
Such as stated before, mothers get consultations on what sperms they would like to fertilize the egg, and this is so the mother can have a child that looks like the opposite spouse and show some genetic similarity. However, if the parent should just be happy with a healthy child, then take the case of Jennifer L. Cramblett VS. Midwest Sperm Bank, LLC. In this case, a lesbian couple is suing a sperm bank for damages after the bank mistakenly gave the egg the wrong sperm. When they baby was born, she was revealed to be black, and this posed trouble for the white mothers. While there was a breach in contract over the mistake, many people argue that the child is healthy and happy, and that the mothers shouldn’t view her as less because she is of color; the backlash on the family has been quite tremendous. Honest mistakes like these are only present because of sperm donations, and while they can be beneficial for single mothers, it enforces beauty standards and intelligence bias. Some cryobanks have a policy that you must choose a donor with similar racial ties, this only prevents from having a multicultural family. Though not everyone desires that, it forces people to treat family as someone who resembles you, rather than someone who you love. Even if people choose someone who is racially similar, mothers choose someone who will hopefully pass
Tradition can be a stubborn force, slow to die or change” (MIT Press Journals). Going into specific countries, China and India have the most imbalance. The report states that there are 653 million males to 612 females; in small cities this isn’t as large of an issue but as the number keeps growing it’s almost unrepairable. India is similar with 508 million males to 471 million females.The journal notes “Zeng Yi, director of the Demography In- stitute at Beijing University, freely admits, ‘The loss of female births due to il-legal prenatal sex determination and sex-selective abortion and female infanticide will affect the true sex ratio at birth and at young ages, creating an unbalanced population sex structure in the future and resulting in potentially serious social problems.”’(MIT Press Journals). Of course some countries have surpluses of males, but the main focus is how so many children are put up for adoption or are aborted once they are determined they are female. It’s this unethical treatment that is enforced by ancient family values and patriarchal leaders in Asia. Though the problems are on the track to be reversed, it’s something that may take decades if not centuries to rebalance. Google Trend data shows that searches that read how to have a baby girl are significantly higher in North America than searches for how to have a baby boy. Americans see a growing desire for females though …show more content…
Such as stated before, mothers get consultations on what sperms they would like to fertilize the egg, and this is so the mother can have a child that looks like the opposite spouse and show some genetic similarity. However, if the parent should just be happy with a healthy child, then take the case of Jennifer L. Cramblett VS. Midwest Sperm Bank, LLC. In this case, a lesbian couple is suing a sperm bank for damages after the bank mistakenly gave the egg the wrong sperm. When they baby was born, she was revealed to be black, and this posed trouble for the white mothers. While there was a breach in contract over the mistake, many people argue that the child is healthy and happy, and that the mothers shouldn’t view her as less because she is of color; the backlash on the family has been quite tremendous. Honest mistakes like these are only present because of sperm donations, and while they can be beneficial for single mothers, it enforces beauty standards and intelligence bias. Some cryobanks have a policy that you must choose a donor with similar racial ties, this only prevents from having a multicultural family. Though not everyone desires that, it forces people to treat family as someone who resembles you, rather than someone who you love. Even if people choose someone who is racially similar, mothers choose someone who will hopefully pass