What we see is reproductive technologies far ahead of ethical and legal concerns. Laws must be made requiring parents to decide what to do with the embryos if they do not want them due to divorce or if they die. Whatever the law and court decisions, there must be maximum legal and ethical respect given to the embryos. Once it was assumed that adults and especially parents has at least some of the answers and a serious role to play in the molding of a child into an adult. Today, the conventional wisdom is that the child has all the answers and that adults are, at best, a facilitator but often an impediment on the road to self-discovery for the child.
Adults now are now to nourish the child's self- esteem.
In this age, self-expression is more important than slavish adherence to rules. One-third of the students at the nation's colleges require remedial instruction in reading, writing, or math. Children do, however, get first-rate sex education and they're able learners. In the end, society gets the children it deserves. An American society that decides to let kids raise themselves gets an MTV and Gap generation.