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..., parents not informing their children of a recessive trait that they may have inherited is only contributing to the problem. In a sense it could be compared to not using blood transfusions on a cancer patient who may survive if that treatment was used. I feel that if we obtain all of this complex information then we should use it to our advantage, not ignore it and create more problems. By not informing our children of this, even though we are aware, would only create bigger problems for the future. Those children would one day have children of their own and, not knowingly, could pass that recessive trait on to them. And if not those children then maybe the next generation. Those children may end up with a life threatening illness that would cause great trauma to the family if that child was to die, or worse yet that child could be born with a mental or physical disability. Raising such a child can be very hard work and very costly for the government for a number of reasons such as medical bills, special schooling and housing and/or living arrangements for that child when he or she’s parents are no longer able to care for him or her. This is not to say that children who are disabled are an inconvenience by any means. Sometimes something just goes wrong and there isn’t anything you can do. What it does mean is that if it could have been prevented and the parents of that disabled child were uninformed of this recessive trait that they carried, it is unfair to them, if they had known ahead of time and had choose not to procreate in order to prevent the pas...