| Children who are clones will eventually discover that | | | | will be loved and cherished only if he follows precisely |
| they're different from other kids. Others may notice | | | | in the footsteps of that person who is the source of |
| that the clone looks eerily similar to one of his parents | | | | his DNA. |
| or bears an uncanny resemblance to a well-known | | | | If the father plays keyboards for a touring band, the |
| sports figure or celebrity. This new awareness may | | | | son will believe he must also play the piano and organ. |
| shock the child to his core. His sense of self may be | | | | His own authentic interests may focus on the |
| severely threatened and he may never again | | | | saxophone or drums, but he knows he is a clone and |
| experience himself as he did before gaining knowledge | | | | his choices are preordained. If the mother is a |
| of his lack of uniqueness. | | | | corporate litigator the daughter will aim herself in the |
| He may imagine that the implications of his being are | | | | direction of an identical career, thwarting her natural |
| very clear. He wasn't conceived to become a person | | | | inclinations to study game design or architecture. The |
| on his own merits. He (if a boy) was brought into the | | | | long-term results for clones of stifling their instincts and |
| world to be a continuation of the existence of his | | | | personalities will likely be grave personality disorders. |
| father. She (if a girl) was born to carry on the activities | | | | The clone grows up believing he must please others. |
| and interests of her mother. "They didn't want me," the | | | | He's not valuable in and of himself, he thinks. He is the |
| clone thinks. "They wanted another copy of | | | | copy, not the original. Therefore, his value must lie in his |
| themselves." Despair may ensue. A weighty sense of | | | | ability to become as true a copy as possible. For a |
| obligation is imposed. | | | | clone, autonomy becomes an afterthought. The |
| Any child wants to please her parents and bask in | | | | birthright of all human beings - the inherent right to |
| their approval and affection, but these needs will likely | | | | make their own choices - is lost to clones. The critical |
| be exacerbated in a cloned child. The clone will likely | | | | question arises - are clones human beings? If children |
| develop a strong sense that her life has one purpose | | | | who are clones are as human as other children, then |
| and one purpose only - to become as perfect a copy | | | | society needs to ensure that the autonomy of these |
| as she can of that individual from whom she is actually | | | | children is reinforced and protected. |
| copied (cloned). The clone comes to believe that he | | | | |
