Break up into small groups. Delegate one or more members of your group to

(1) prepare a summary of your group's responses to the question, and
(2) make a list of your group's members.

Discuss your answers to the following questions.

1. Who is "Gert Fram?"

2. Describe Susan's relationship to her parents and her family. Does she have a good relationship with them? Why or why not?

3. In Morals and Ethics (1988), Carl Wellman discusses six aspects of parent-child relations: biological relation, creative relation, psychological relation, family relation, legal relation, and moral relation.Describe Susan's relationship to her parents in terms of at least 4 of these. 

4. Suppose it turned out that genetic engineering had been involved in Susan's own origins (your group can decided what kind and to what extent). What difference, if any, would this make to the quality of Susan's relationship with her parents and family? What does your group's answer (or set of answers) tell you about the relevance of the parent-child relationship to genetic engineering ?

5.  How would you go about applying Noddings' ideas about caring to the question of whether or not the genetic engineering of humans is beneficial?

For Philosophy 302, Issues in Ethics, Le Moyne College, Prof. Michael Kagan