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A Comparison of Parental and Non-Parental Attitudes Towards Prenatal Screening.
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A Comparison of Parental and Non-Parental Attitudes Towards Prenatal Screening. Abstract Prenatal genetic screening has been offered by health authorities in the UK for over twenty years in order to identify those at a higher than average risk of having a child with a disability so that the parents may be offered genetic testing to give more specific information about the health of the foetus and define the risk for future pregnancies. However with the continual advances of the Human Genome Project, there is an increasing trend towards more parental control over a child's characteristics. The aims of this study were to examine the attitudes of parents and non-parents towards the subject of prenatal screening in order to evaluate if parental views parallel those of the rest of society. 247 participants (consisting of 125 parents and 122 non-parents) were involved in this study and were selected by opportunity quota sampling. They were...
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