{"id":45555,"date":"2014-08-09T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mail_on_sunday_bishop_michael_nazir-ali-designer_babies_are_a_disaster_for\/"},"modified":"2014-08-09T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T23:05:08","slug":"mail_on_sunday_bishop_michael_nazir-ali-designer_babies_are_a_disaster_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45555","title":{"rendered":"(Mail on Sunday) Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali&#8211;Designer babies are a disaster for society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research shows that children are best brought up in families where a mum and dad are present. The role of fathers in the nurture of their children is unique and cannot be replaced by other so-called \u201d\u02dcmale role-models\u2019 or, indeed, an extra \u201d\u02dcmother\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Research tells us that children relate to their fathers differently than to their mothers, and this is important in developing a sense of their own identity&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>None of this should detract from the heroism of single parents. They should be provided with every support by the State and by local communities.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however,  a big difference between children growing up without fathers because of death or family breakdown, and actively planning to bring children into the world who will not know one of their biological parents and where such a parent will never be part of the nurture of these children.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/debate\/article-2714339\/Designer-babies-disaster-society-writes-Bishop-Michael-Nazir-Ali-former-Bishop-Rochester.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research shows that children are best brought up in families where a mum and dad are present. The role of fathers in the nurture of their children is unique and cannot be replaced by other so-called \u201d\u02dcmale role-models\u2019 or, indeed,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45555\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,74,175,101,389,635,199,168,104,114,96,98,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-anthropology","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}