indispensable, will not be needed for the birth of a child.
Soon science is going to find ways and means when a mother
will not need to carry the burden of a baby in her womb for
nine months.
A machine, a test tube, will do the job better. And then it
will be difficult to know the parentage of a child. Then the
whole social structure will have to be changed. Then all
women will play mothers and all men will play fathers to
children who will grow up under the collective care of the
community. For sure, everything is going to change.
Role Of Parents
What I am saying has become necessary because of the way
science is currently developing throughout the world. Now
when a child is born to you, you consult the best possible
physician about his health and upkeep; you don’t think that,
being his parent, you can treat your child medically, too. In
the same way, you go to a good tailor to have clothes made
for him; you may not sew them yourself because you are his
parent. Likewise, with the deepening of your understanding,
you will want your child to be born through much healthier
sperm than your own, so that he is endowed with a healthy
body and an intelligent mind.
On her part, a would-be mother would not like to drag on for
nine months with a baby in her womb when facilities will be
made available to grow a child externally in a better and
healthier manner. The function of parents, as it is today,
will then cease to be necessary. And with the cessation of
the function of parents, how will marriage itself exist? Then
the very basis of marriage will disappear. Technology on one
hand, and the science of man’s mind on the other, are
heading towards a point when individual claim on children
will come to an end.
