Freundlich M D
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, New York, NY, USA.
Child Welfare. 1998 Nov-Dec;77(6):663-79.
Adoption professionals and prospective adoptive families have become increasingly interested in obtaining genetic information on children prior to adoption. Predictive genetic testing of apparently healthy children has been urged as a way of generating information about children's future health and assisting families in deciding whether to adopt. Such genetic testing of children, however, raises a host of ethical issues with important implications for adoption policy and practice. The medical and psychosocial benefits and risks of predictive testing provide the context for analyzing the ethics of such testing. Ethical considerations strongly counsel against predictive genetic testing solely for purposes of evaluating a child for adoption.
收养专业人士和准收养家庭越来越有兴趣在收养前获取儿童的基因信息。有人敦促对看似健康的儿童进行预测性基因检测，以此来获取有关儿童未来健康的信息，并帮助家庭决定是否收养。然而，对儿童进行这种基因检测引发了一系列伦理问题，对收养政策和实践有着重要影响。预测性检测的医学和心理社会益处与风险为分析此类检测的伦理问题提供了背景。伦理考量强烈反对仅仅为了评估儿童是否适合被收养而进行预测性基因检测。
