While here in the United States we bicker about whether single-parent households can raise children as well as two-parent ones, in Britain, they’re way ahead of us. They’re up to three parents in the mix, bless their souls.
They don’t mean three parents under the same roof. That would be chaos, clearly. (The three wouldn’t be able to buy fitted sheets for a triple bed — plus their driveway probably would be too small.) They mean a kid made from the genetic goop of three people.
So, a kid with Mom’s eyes, Dad’s nose and the height of ... a generous DNA donor. An aunt or uncle? A neighbor? The pool guy? It’s a serious topic, with the serious goal of allowing parents who carry genetic defects to produce children who are free of those defects.
Genetically modifying an egg that carries a risk for muscular dystrophy, for example, would eliminate it in not only the baby, but in all future stock from that family line. A British committee, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, is now mulling whether to lift the ban on genetic modification. Read more >>
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