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    Challenges→A selective mentality in reproduction may lead to conditional rather than unconditional love for children after birth

    Parents who go to great lengths and incur great expense to procure 'perfect' gametes may develop unrealistic expectations

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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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