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Progress refers to the changing that the world has known during the past centuries. It consists in believing that the world can become better in terms of science, technology and quality of life. Progress involve evolution from an old order with old traditions to a new order which is necessarily approved by everyone or at least by most of people.
We can consider that one of the biggest differences between former and recent societies is the concept of family. Indeed, typical family had evolved and today’s family are completely different from the 90 family’s patterns.
To what extend can we modify family’s structure and are the means used always disputable?
Family structures have evolved along with society. The typical family used to be a married couple and an average of 2 children, in other world, the nuclear family.
This kind of family was spread all over the world and had some habits: Children parents and grand parents spend holidays together and most of the time they live in the same city.
Traditionally the mother was a housewife and the father the breadwinner. Which means that he had to meet his family’s need while his wife take care of her children and the house (she prepares meals for the entire family and she wasn’t allowed to have a job).
Children were the symbol of love and the union of 2 persons that will spend the rest of their life together, assuming the role that the society gives them.
Parents didn’t imagine that, 30 years later, they would have the ability to choose their sex’s children or to manipulate DNA according to their desires.
The PGD process is sometimes necessary and useful. In fact, some couples can’t have a baby and can’t bear the idea to adopt someone else’s baby. Therefore, using the PGD process is sometimes a good way to improve someone’s living by helping them having a baby.
Scientific progress is also helpful because it’s a good way to cure some children from genetic diseases.
But on the other hand, it can be shocking that some parents can select an embryo in order to have a perfect kid. It seems that these parents car more about their children’s appearance than their personality.
The fact that only rich people can use this process can have some defects: in fact it will not be available to everyone: Consequently, it will create a new specie composed bye an elite which will marginalize the other children because of their imperfections.
The use of new technologies and scientific breakthroughs contributed to the evolution of the family’s structure.
In fact, having children is now possible and imaginable for people who never thought, that someday, they will have a baby. Particularly same sex couples, sterile people….
Another fact that explain the difference between typical families and new families is the emancipation of the women. After years of fighting for their right women had finally succeed and manage to have the same right than men
