For or Against: Spaying/Neutering Your Children

Jax's Mom · 11-29-2010, 04:13 PM

With technology today, it's perfectly possible to freeze embryos as well as sperm and eggs. So how come no one has explored spaying and neutering their kids before they mature to cut down on all of those potential health concerns?
Women with a mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene carry a risk between 25% and 60% of developing ovarian cancer depending on the specific mutation and in the United States, between 7,500 and 8,000 diagnoses of testicular cancer are made each year, so are we not being irresponsible parents by not putting a stop to it in our kids at an early age?
I've always wondered...

Konotashi · 11-29-2010, 04:16 PM

Didn't they already do this? Eugenics?

Jax08 · 11-29-2010, 04:17 PM

Well naturally...the human race doesn't really need to continue on.

Really?

Jax08 · 11-29-2010, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Konotashi

Didn't they already do this? Eugenics?

hmmmm...now there is an interesting subject. Forced sterilization of poor southern women because being poor meant they were to stupid to reproduce. Experiments done on races other than white people. Oh..and my favorite...did you know Hitler sent his henchmen over here to STUDY our eugenics program? He admired the United States for it.

Rerun · 11-29-2010, 04:20 PM

Can anyone say Hitler? (not you, just the idea)

KZoppa · 11-29-2010, 04:22 PM

has anyone seen Demolition Man with Wesley Snipes? Thats pretty much what they do in that movie. Genetic testing and certain risk factors people arent allowed to have kids. There's no touching or anything.

Jax08 · 11-29-2010, 04:23 PM

But the neighbor did once mention to DH..."if I had to do it all over again I would have drowned them in a 5 gallon bucket"

Konotashi · 11-29-2010, 04:24 PM

Anyone seen GATTACA? They take the absolute best genes from both parents and make the most superior offspring possible and any 'natural' offspring is considered inferior. It's a good movie.

Rerun · 11-29-2010, 04:30 PM

On the flip side of it, there was that ridiculous movie that illustrated how as society evolves, many of the "smartest" people are climbing the career ladder and not having kids, or not having many, and the stupid people are all reproducing so the world just gets stupider and stupider as time goes on until before long all of society has a ridiculously low IQ.

Jax's Mom · 11-29-2010, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rerun

On the flip side of it, there was that ridiculous movie that illustrated how as society evolves, many of the "smartest" people are climbing the career ladder and not having kids, or not having many, and the stupid people are all reproducing so the world just gets stupider and stupider as time goes on until before long all of society has a ridiculously low IQ.

Strange... I lived in a city like that LOL

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I am AGAINST Spaying/Neutering my children	10	21.74%
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11-29-2010, 04:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jax's Mom Knighted Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,227	For or Against: Spaying/Neutering Your Children With technology today, it's perfectly possible to freeze embryos as well as sperm and eggs. So how come no one has explored spaying and neutering their kids before they mature to cut down on all of those potential health concerns? Women with a mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene carry a risk between 25% and 60% of developing ovarian cancer depending on the specific mutation and in the United States, between 7,500 and 8,000 diagnoses of testicular cancer are made each year, so are we not being irresponsible parents by not putting a stop to it in our kids at an early age? I've always wondered...

11-29-2010, 04:16 PM	#2 (permalink)
Konotashi Knighted Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Arizona Posts: 3,380	Didn't they already do this? Eugenics? __________________ Ozzy - Chocolate Pom "In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog." My Photography

11-29-2010, 04:22 PM	#6 (permalink)
KZoppa Crowned Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Maryland kinda missing CO Posts: 13,832	has anyone seen Demolition Man with Wesley Snipes? Thats pretty much what they do in that movie. Genetic testing and certain risk factors people arent allowed to have kids. There's no touching or anything. __________________ The more people I meet and talk to,the more I love my dogs and their intelligence. www.krystalscollarcreations.weebly.com Riley GSD/BC 1/10/05 Zena GSD 6/1/03 Shasta GSD 5/5/10

11-29-2010, 04:24 PM	#8 (permalink)
Konotashi Knighted Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Arizona Posts: 3,380	Anyone seen GATTACA? They take the absolute best genes from both parents and make the most superior offspring possible and any 'natural' offspring is considered inferior. It's a good movie. __________________ Ozzy - Chocolate Pom "In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog." My Photography

11-29-2010, 04:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
Jax08 Crowned Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: NNE PA Posts: 14,337	Well naturally...the human race doesn't really need to continue on. Really?

11-29-2010, 04:20 PM	#5 (permalink)
Rerun Crowned Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Indiana Posts: 5,608	Can anyone say Hitler? (not you, just the idea)

11-29-2010, 04:23 PM	#7 (permalink)
Jax08 Crowned Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: NNE PA Posts: 14,337	But the neighbor did once mention to DH..."if I had to do it all over again I would have drowned them in a 5 gallon bucket"

11-29-2010, 04:30 PM	#9 (permalink)
Rerun Crowned Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Indiana Posts: 5,608	On the flip side of it, there was that ridiculous movie that illustrated how as society evolves, many of the "smartest" people are climbing the career ladder and not having kids, or not having many, and the stupid people are all reproducing so the world just gets stupider and stupider as time goes on until before long all of society has a ridiculously low IQ.

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