scholarly journals Genetic parenthood and causation: An objection to Douglas and Devolder’s modified direct proportionate genetic descent account

Bioethics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 1085-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
César Palacios‐González
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Parenthood

The relative importance of genetic parenthood

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia Hendriks ◽  
Madelon van Wely ◽  
Thomas M. D'Hooghe ◽  
Andreas Meissner ◽  
Femke Mol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relative Importance ◽  
Genetic Parenthood

ORPHANS BY DESIGN: THE FUTURE OF GENETIC PARENTHOOD

Bioethics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Hilary Bowman‐Smart
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
Genetic Parenthood

scholarly journals Nuclear Families: Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques and the Regulation of Parenthood

2020 ◽  
pp. 016224392093454
Author(s):  
Catherine Mills
Keyword(s):  
Mitochondrial Dna ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Nuclear Families ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Egg Donors ◽  
Genetic Parenthood ◽  
Genetic Parents ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques

Since mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRT) were developed and clinically introduced in the United Kingdom (UK), there has been much discussion of whether these lead to children borne of three parents. In the UK, the regulation of MRT has dealt with this by stipulating that egg donors for the purposes of MRT are not genetic parents even though they contribute mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to offspring. In this paper, I examine the way that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act in the UK manages the question of parentage. I argue that the Act breaks the link typically made between genetic causation and genetic parenthood by redefining genetic causation solely in terms of nuclear genetics. Along with this, mtDNA is construed as a kind of supplement to the nuclear family. Drawing on the account of the supplement developed by Jacques Derrida, I argue that mtDNA and the women who donate it are seen as both essential to establishing the nuclear family but also exterior to and insignificant for it.

Sexual and Emotional Infidelity: Evolved Gender Differences in Jealousy Prove Robust and Replicable

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Buss
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Emotional Infidelity ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Comprehensive Theory ◽  
The Status ◽  
High Investment ◽  
Genetic Parenthood ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Highly Cited

Infidelity poses threats to high-investment mating relationships. Because of gender differences in some aspects of reproductive biology, such as internal female fertilization, the nature of these threats differs for men and women. Men, but not women, for example, have recurrently faced the problem of uncertainty in their genetic parenthood. Jealousy is an emotion hypothesized to have evolved to combat these threats. The 1992 article Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology reported three empirical studies using two different methods, forced-choice and physiological experiments. Results supported the evolution-based hypotheses. The article became highly cited for several reasons. It elevated the status of jealousy as an important emotion to be explained by any comprehensive theory of human emotions. Subsequent meta-analyses robustly supported the evolutionary hypotheses. Moreover, the work supported the evolutionary meta-theory of gender differences, which posits differences only in domains in which the sexes have recurrently faced distinct adaptive problems. It also heralded the newly emerging field of evolutionary psychology as a useful perspective that possesses the scientific virtues of testability, falsifiability, and heuristic value in discovering previously unknown psychological phenomena.

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