"Thirteen-year-old Liz Herzog, whose father is donor number 1002 from Virginia's Fairfax Cryobank, says she's happy with her life."
Shades of "Brave New World". Kinda gives me the willies.
Here is another problem. Giving creedence to a 13 year old, as if she has wisdom enough to know what is good or bad for her, physically and otherwise. It is always interesting to note how the media uses this to their advantage. When it is one of their protected groups, the person is considered a child - even if the person is 18 or 19. If not in the protected category - then it is a young man or woman. They play with words until they mean nothing.
>Shades of "Brave New World". <
Indeed, my friend, indeed:
"Still leaning against the incubators he gave them, while the pencils scurried illegibly across the pages, a brief description of the modern fertilizing process; spoke first, of course, of its surgical introduction--"the operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a bonus amounting to six months' salary"; continued with some account of the technique for preserving the excised ovary alive and actively developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity; referred to the liquor in which the detached and ripened eggs were kept; and, leading his charges to the work tables, actually showed them how this liquor was drawn off from the test-tubes; how it was let out drop by drop onto the specially warmed slides of the microscopes; how the eggs which it contained were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle; how (and he now took them to watch the operation) this receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillon containing free-swimming spermatozoa -- at a minimum concentration of one hundred thousand per cubic centimetre, he insisted; and how, after ten minutes, the container was lifted out of the liquor and its contents re-examined; how, if any of the eggs remained unfertilized, it was again immersed, and, if necessary, yet again; how the fertilized ova went back to the incubators; where the Alphas and Betas remained until definitely bottled; while the Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons were brought out again, after only thirty-six hours, to undergo Bokanovsky's Process."
I can imagine a whole breed of these soulless kids. If the girl doesn't miss having a father, probably that part of her brain is missing.
While the mother may provide nurturance, it is largely up to the father to provide the moral & intellectual guidance. From what I'm seeing among the younger generation, there is a profound void among many of these fatherless children.