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I can just hear the guy who wrote the software for creating UK birth certificates: "I know for sure that I need to display two parents max on these." And I fee

by kareemm 12y ago

I can just hear the guy who wrote the software for creating UK birth certificates: "I know for sure that I need to display two parents max on these." And I feel for the poor programmer whose job it is to deal with the brand-new edge case of putting three parents' names on one.

thisone 12y ago
IVF can currently involve 5 people as it is. Sperm donor, egg donor, surrogate, couple whose child this will be. This method ups it to 6.
- firethief 12y ago
  It takes a village...
- Houshalter 12y ago
  The kid could also have an organ transplant.
bayesianhorse 12y ago
For most purposes I think two parents would be enough, even if the child was born using more than two parents. Generally the decision to have a child, and the decision to be a family is complicated enough with two people. A third person to have "rights" over the child can only mess up stuff.
- Cthulhu_ 12y ago
  > For most purposes If only we as software developers could create software for most purposes :(
- TheSpiceIsLife 12y ago
  In Australia children are assigned independent legal representation in the Family Law Courts. Australia has taken steps to shift away from parents having rights over children and moving toward children having rights (to be safe, cared for, to see their parents, etc). I would hazard a guess there is a possibility, down the track, that a court will have to determine whether a child has a right to know from whom her DNA comes. It will be interesting to see, from the comfort of my arm chair, how this all unfolds over time.
logfromblammo 12y ago
Make the parents field a list without fixed length, ordered by fraction of donor genes. Include exceptions for specific gene identifiers from a different mix of donors. The default case would therefore be [[0.5 Mom, 0.5 Dad], [mDNA:1.0 Mom]] for girls, and [[0.5 Mom, 0.5 Dad], [mDNA:1.0 Mom], [23X: 1.0 Mom], [23Y: 1.0 Dad]] for boys. For clones, it would be [[1.0 Nuclear Donor],[mDNA:1.0 Egg Donor]]. For parthenogenesis, it would be [[1.0 Mom]]. For the new UK case, it would be [[0.5 Mom, 0.5 Dad],[mDNA:1.0 Egg Donor],...]. If, for some reason, a cloned baby had the Bt pesticide genes inserted, it would be [[1.0 Nuclear Donor],[mDNA:1.0 Egg Donor],[[Cry1A.105, CryIAb, CryIF, Cry2Ab, Cry3Bb1, Cry34Ab1, Cry35Ab1, mCry3A, VIP]:1.0 Bacillus thuringiensis],...]. The real problem is finding the person to rewrite the Crystal Reports to accommodate the new data structure. Feel sorry for that person.

by kareemm 12y ago

thisone 12y ago

IVF can currently involve 5 people as it is. Sperm donor, egg donor, surrogate, couple whose child this will be. This method ups it to 6.

firethief 12y ago
It takes a village...
Houshalter 12y ago
The kid could also have an organ transplant.

bayesianhorse 12y ago

For most purposes I think two parents would be enough, even if the child was born using more than two parents. Generally the decision to have a child, and the decision to be a family is complicated enough with two people. A third person to have "rights" over the child can only mess up stuff.

Cthulhu_ 12y ago
> For most purposes If only we as software developers could create software for most purposes :(
TheSpiceIsLife 12y ago
In Australia children are assigned independent legal representation in the Family Law Courts. Australia has taken steps to shift away from parents having rights over children and moving toward children having rights (to be safe, cared for, to see their parents, etc). I would hazard a guess there is a possibility, down the track, that a court will have to determine whether a child has a right to know from whom her DNA comes. It will be interesting to see, from the comfort of my arm chair, how this all unfolds over time.

logfromblammo 12y ago

Make the parents field a list without fixed length, ordered by fraction of donor genes. Include exceptions for specific gene identifiers from a different mix of donors. The default case would therefore be [[0.5 Mom, 0.5 Dad], [mDNA:1.0 Mom]] for girls, and [[0.5 Mom, 0.5 Dad], [mDNA:1.0 Mom], [23X: 1.0 Mom], [23Y: 1.0 Dad]] for boys. For clones, it would be [[1.0 Nuclear Donor],[mDNA:1.0 Egg Donor]]. For parthenogenesis, it would be [[1.0 Mom]]. For the new UK case, it would be [[0.5 Mom, 0.5 Dad],[mDNA:1.0 Egg Donor],...]. If, for some reason, a cloned baby had the Bt pesticide genes inserted, it would be [[1.0 Nuclear Donor],[mDNA:1.0 Egg Donor],[[Cry1A.105, CryIAb, CryIF, Cry2Ab, Cry3Bb1, Cry34Ab1, Cry35Ab1, mCry3A, VIP]:1.0 Bacillus thuringiensis],...]. The real problem is finding the person to rewrite the Crystal Reports to accommodate the new data structure. Feel sorry for that person.