One thing every parent desires, one wish In the heart of every prospective parent, is to have a perfect child. Every parent wants to have a child who would have everything in an adequate proportion.
Discipline, wisdom, good body structure, and good intelligence Quotient. Parents want to have kids that they would be proud of, kids that are presentable, and kids that would affect their world positively.
In the quest for these, many people, especially men, thought marrying a beautiful lady and intelligent person would address the issue, therefore they go for partners putting looks first into consideration.
Unfortunately, sometimes, one would marry a very beautiful lady and then have kids that are opposite of what they expected due to the genes that are embedded in the parents, some genes are recessive, and they may not be seen outside, if your choice is looks alone you might be in for a shock.
Sometimes we put too much expectations on our genes to give us the best children ever but there are traits that are built and not necessarily inherited. Maybe having this understanding will save us the pain of expecting too much.
Moreover, Children are gifts, and we don't decide what we receive as gifts. Each of them regardless of how they look has a divine purpose to fulfill.
Sometimes they won't come ready-made like we thought, it is the parent's responsibility to make them ready for whatever the future holds.
If it were possible for parents to be able to decide the kind of genes they want for their children it is going to be great.
Parents would have exactly the kind of children they wanted. Children would be born into this world almost perfectly. I am certain all parents would go for nothing but the best genes for their children.
Such discovery would have salvaged a dying generation like ours where young people are already heading towards destruction. Who knows, the children born with those perfect traits would have brought about change.
However, I think this has its bad sides too. If parents were able to decide the kind of genes they want for their children, partners who are unfaithful can have their way to make children who do not belong to their spouse possess the qualities of the spouse and even DNA tests won't save the day.
Again parents might end up becoming lazy in their duty of rendering proper upbringing. Since the child is already perfect, there wouldn't be a need to try to add anything else. Maybe the best you can do as parents is to just provide food, shelter, and clothing.
I see this life as a journey to perfection, and each stage of our lives is a step. Making a child perfect right from childhood is like tampering with the law of nature. If we all are perfect already, what's the need to live?
What makes life fun and worth living is our imperfections, as we live each day, we discover those ugly parts of our lives and make amends, they spur us to become creative, make us strong, and force us to look for means to adjust and keep working on ourselves until we transform into something beautiful.
Every child is born with a unique gift from nature to address certain things in life, allowing a parent to decide their gifts and talents might alter something in their original destiny and that won't be nice.
Making a child perfect by giving them the perfect gene from birth is a shortcut and I do not buy into it. Let them come with whatever they have buried on their inside and discover who they are as they journey in life.
The only gene I think should be perfected in every child is the gene to be born healthy and fit. I mean to look beautiful, having all parts of the body intact. It hurts to see some people handicapped and some struggling with one medical challenge or the other.