My Goal Is First Of All To

I Think Part Of Being A Parent, To Love One's Child, Is To Accept Them As They Come - Not To See Them As Instruments Of Our Ambition Or As Creatures To Be Molded, As If They Were Themselves Commodities.

The Norm Of Unconditional Parental Love, I Think, Depends On The Fact That We Don't Pick And Choose The Traits Of Our Children In The Way That We Pick And Choose The Features Of A Car We Might Order, Or A Consumer Good.

I Do Not Argue That Nature Is Sacrosanct In The Sense That We Must Never Tamper With Nature. That Would Disempower, Really, All Of Medicine. That Would Mean That We Can't Combat Dread Diseases - Malaria, Polio, All Of Which Are Given By Nature, If One Thinks About It.

In Some Parts Of The World, That Sex Selection For Boys - And It's Usually For Boys - Reflects Sex Discrimination Against Girls, And It Leads To Very Large Imbalances - In China, In Korea, In India - In The Population Between Boys And Girls, A Vast Disproportion Of Boys To Girls, And It Reflects Really This Discriminatory Attitude Toward Girls.

In Most Of Our Lives, We Are Accustomed To Aiming At Mastery And Control And Dominion- - Over Nature, Over Our Lives, Over Our Jobs, Over Our Careers, Over The Goods That We Buy.