Artificial Womb Technology
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Bring it on. Heck yes.
Freaky meddling and social engineering issues aside, these would change how adult humans interact with each other for the better. So many other issues would also be solved by this, not even kidding. Natural doesn't always mean GOOD, folks! Our reproductive methods are actually pretty detrimental in a lot of ways.
This would mean the meat market aspect of relationships between genders would be GONE. Do you know what that would be like? Do you? Because I do and it's BEAUTIFUL.
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I mean that having readily available artificial wombs would take some of the biological pressure off of heterosexual relationships.
I suppose the meat market might endure, but I would hope that will be the first and very quick casualty of no longer needing coupling to produce offspring.
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I mean that having readily available artificial wombs would take some of the biological pressure off of heterosexual relationships.
I suppose the meat market might endure, but I would hope that will be the first and very quick casualty of no longer needing coupling to produce offspring.
The male sperm starts deteriorating as he leaves his twenties. He goes from typically a dozen problems with some of his genes genetically to as may as forty or more that may be transferred to his off spring as he reaches his forties. Still the biggest problem is the toll child bearing takes on women. That’s where this is good news for women perhaps? Or does it mean the bond between mother and child that is the strongest will no longer be the case?
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Or does it mean the bond between mother and child that is the strongest will no longer be the case?
I'm not sure why people are so concerned about having biological mothers for children. Adopted infants actually tend to do pretty okay in the attachment and psychological adjustment areas.
What's more, at least in that case they KNOW they're wanted.
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Or does it mean the bond between mother and child that is the strongest will no longer be the case?
I'm not sure why people are so concerned about having biological mothers for children. Adopted infants actually tend to do pretty okay in the attachment and psychological adjustment areas.
What's more, at least in that case they KNOW they're wanted.
I am not sure I agree with that Byte. They also know they were not wanted. It has been my experience many have been abused and act out. I will not stand by that because I have not researched it. It just comes to mind if you know what I mean? It could be a bias on my part based on bad information over the years.
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It has been my experience many have been abused and act out.
You're thinking of foster care. There's a difference between that and adoption.
Yes, there are very real problems in foster care in this country. And adoption agencies are problematic in that they're very exclusive and discriminatory.
But the actual adoptions tend to have a fairly positive outcome. And infants can certainly survive and even thrive being raised by someone that is not their biological mother.
While I concede there can be a higher percentage of certain mental health disorders in adopted teens, it's also been concluded that most of them are still healthy. And it must be particularly noted that a lot of that may be because the kids with the higher risks were adopted out of foster care. (Foster care is a mess)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/11/adopted_kids_are_happy_healthy
.html
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/adopted-children-by-the-
numbers/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
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It has been my experience many have been abused and act out.
You're thinking of foster care. There's a difference between that and adoption.
Yes, there are very real problems in foster care in this country. And adoption agencies are problematic in that they're very exclusive and discriminatory.
But the actual adoptions tend to have a fairly positive outcome. And infants can certainly survive and even thrive being raised by someone that is not their biological mother.
While I concede there can be a higher percentage of certain mental health disorders in adopted teens, it's also been concluded that most of them are still healthy. And it must be particularly noted that a lot of that may be because the kids with the higher risks were adopted out of foster care. (Foster care is a mess)
As such there really is no need to enforce strict limitations on this.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/11/adopted_kids_are_happy_healthy
.html
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/adopted-children-by-the-
numbers/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
What you say rings true and I think it is great some people chose to adopt.
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Yeah, I had a family member who used to work on a foster care review board.
She actually quit that to go work at a cancer treatment clinic because the foster care cases were too sad and stressful.
If that gives you any indication.
But yeah, ADOPTION is great. It's about meeting the kid and building a rapport and trust instead of taking a kid from an already traumatic and anxiety inducing compromised situation and FORCING them into the care of someone else who may or may not have good intentions.
The difference is huge and very important.
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Agreed 
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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
I mean that having readily available artificial wombs would take some of the biological pressure off of heterosexual relationships.
I suppose the meat market might endure, but I would hope that will be the first and very quick casualty of no longer needing coupling to produce offspring.
To the contrary, meat marketing would skyrocket.
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