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    Challenges→The link between a selective mentality in reproduction and overzealous or unforgiving parenting styles is not a necessary one

    Gamete donor selection is less likely than more expensive and effective forms of selective reproduction, such as genetic engineering, to produce problematic expectations and attitudes

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    Gamete donor(reproductive ethics)
    A person who provides sperm or eggs for reproduction, usually for someone else to use in having a child.
    Genetic engineering(biotechnology and reproductive ethics)
    Directly modifying the genes (DNA instructions) of an organism, including potentially modifying human embryos before birth to select for desired traits.
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    Harmful ways of thinking or unrealistic beliefs that could develop—for example, viewing children as products to be designed rather than as people to be accepted as they are.
    Selective reproduction(reproductive ethics and bioethics)
    The practice of choosing specific traits or characteristics you want in your offspring, rather than leaving reproduction entirely to chance.

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    Some suggest, however, that although selection is not necessarily morally problematic, we should still be concerned that a selective mentality may be a precursor of conditional, as opposed to unconditional, love once the child is born, or to unrealistic expectations and feelings of entitlement. Thus, the suggestion here is that people who go to great lengths and incur great expense in procuring what are, for them, the ‘perfect’ gametes, may be more likely to reject or otherwise mistreat their ch

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