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How to deal with the question of being in the era of genetics? How do children and parents respond to knowledge about genes, and how will the possibilities of modifying genes before the birth of a child affect self-concepts and relationships in the future? This text examines children’s ambitions at a time of a “neurogenetic reality” and the anxieties related to it. It also analyzes a number of legal cases where parents allege that their child was created as a result of a “wrongful birth.”