This poll is about whether you would be willing to pass your genetic health issues on to biological children. For the purposes of this poll, answer based on this question alone– if you don’t want to have children for other reasons, try to put those reasons aside and answer solely on the basis of whether you would want hypothetical children to inherit your condition(s).
For the purposes of this poll, do not include the possibility of IVF + PGD (in vitro fertilization with preimplantation genetic diagnosis), which allows the parents to choose a healthy embryo or an embryo with specific traits to be conceived.
If you have a genetic disorder/syndrome that significantly affects your quality of life and could possibly be passed on to your children, would you want to have biological children, knowing that they could inherit your condition?
Yes, I would still want/be willing to have biological children
No, I wouldn’t want to take the risk of passing my condition to my children
It’s complicated/other
I don’t have any conditions like this, show results
See ResultsBe civil in the comments and remember that real people live with every one of the conditions you could bring up in your hypothetical arguments. If you have a condition that aligns with this question, feel free to discuss your reasoning, but I encourage anyone who does not have a condition like this to refrain from speculating on the value of lives with such conditions. Do not use this post as a platform for eugenics.
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I got all my parents’ genetic issues. Even if there weren’t other reasons I didn’t want kids, I wouldn’t wish this hell on my worst enemy.