Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percent and rising

Re:Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percen... by arcbyte on Thursday October 11, 2018 @04:05PM (#18196638)

I regret that humans can suffer feelings of inadequacy like feeling diminished as a mother, and I certainly sympathize with your wife because she will almost certainly have to fight thoughts like that, but I don't believe for a moment that those feelings have any validity. I am sure she will be a great mother and should have no regrets!

That said, I believe everyone ought to have a right to know their genetic lineage. It doesn't make anyone any less of a person or diminish their contributions - but for the sole reason of medical insight it ought to be knowable.

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Re:Chances DNA can be used to find your family? Sixty percen... by brazzledazzle on Thursday October 11, 2018 @05:49PM (#18197283)

I agree for possible selfish reasons. My dad was adopted and he died from a heart attack. He made all of the decisions you’d need to make to ensure you had a heart attack like he was going down a checklist but it would be good to find out if there’s a family history of heart disease I think it would be good to know.

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