The case against preadoption genetic testing.

摘要: Adoption professionals and prospective adoptive families have become increasingly interested in obtaining genetic information on children prior to adoption. Predictive testing of apparently healthy has been urged as a way generating about children's future health assisting deciding whether adopt. Such children, however, raises host ethical issues with important implications for adoption policy practice. The medical psychosocial benefits risks predictive provide the context analyzing ethics such testing. Ethical considerations strongly counsel against solely purposes evaluating child