Sociology

As the conflict between science, nature, and ethical issues increase, a new twist has been added to this conflict with scientific discovery which shows that parents can now choose the sex of their child. A report released by house committee in 2005 showed that the parliamentary committee had given light to parents be allowed to choose the sex of their child. MPs argued that there has been great discontent in families regarding the sex of their children and allowing parents to choose the sex of their children will play an important role to help parents balance their families. However, it is widely believed that the House of Commons Science and Technology committee had disagreed on the issue and half of the committee members disagree with this decision owing to ethical issues.  Although the committee argued that the technology has been proved to be safe, effective, and reliable, there are ethical and social issues which could be great impediments to its implementation. Either, the implementation of this policy is likely to results to social chaos rather than achieve family balance as has been argued by the committee.  This is against nature and turns children to consumer items. It could give place for gender stereotypes and its also against moral and ethical issues in the society. Despite gaining support from MPs, the policy should not be implemented and hence parents should not be allowed to choose the sex of their children.

Reasons why parents should not be allowed to choose sex of their child
Parents should not be allowed to choose the sex of their children since this is against ethics.  As the committee members pointed out, one of the greatest impediments in implementation of such policies in the society has been taboos and moral issues that people hold dear to and which govern their life. This means that these morals are the fabric that holds the society together and putting in place policies that goes against them amounts to breaking the society. Moral ethics dictate that people dont dictate the sex of their children (Kalb and Springen, 2004). This rule, although not clear for many people put some governance in the society. For example if it cost money to change the sex of the child, what about those who dont have money  This is likely to create imbalance in the society. Also moral ethics are closely intertwined with religious beliefs, and this policy amounts to breaking of religious beliefs. Religiously, Gods is considered the sole creator and determiner of sex.  Implementation of this policy will therefore break religious beliefs which are part of society moral ethics.

The sex of a child is determined by nature and therefore allowing parents to determine the sex of their children will distract nature. For a long time, man has interfered with nature and man has paid dearly for this.  There are many instances where interference with natural order of things has led to adverse effects.  This means that despite the assurance from the committee that this technology is deemed safe, very little research has been carried on the effect of the policy of natural order of things.  Nature has regulated a balance between male and females, although it has been beyond the knowledge of man why and how this is regulated. In other words, there are many things in creation that are beyond the control of man and attempts to control them may end up bringing more adverse effects. For example what will happened when majority of parents chose to have boy child and at the end, the world will have more males that females Will this not mean the end of human species In order to preserve the natural order of things as man found them, parents should not be allowed to determine the sex of their children.

Children and gender has been a controversial issue in many families. There are families that have been broken down because of this issue. However, this does not mean that parents should have the authority to determine the sex of their children as this is not a solution but another problem adding to gender and children issues. Take an example of a family which cannot agree on the sex of their child. Husband and wife want different sexes and no one is read to back off. This will create more instability in the family unlike in instances where determination of sex is a factor of nature. Furthermore, this policy is likely to turn children into a consumer item which degrades the value of sex in human life.   It will also give a chance for propagation of gender stereotypes where more families may prefer having children of one gender. On average it has been estimated that more families would prefer to have a boy children. In the long run, this will create gender imbalance in the society and further degrade or raise the value of one gender.  To preserve the stability of the family, parents should not be allowed to choose the sex of their children.

Conclusion
The passage of a policy by MPs that parents should be allowed to choose the sex of their child has raised a number of issues. This policy was meant to create stability in the family but in the long run it may bring more problems in the society than the intended advantages. Parents should not be allowed to choose the sex of their child since this is against the moral ethics of the society and goes against the nature.  It is also likely to make children consumer items creating instability in families and degrading the value of gender in the society.