Pediatric Disease: My Genes, My Guilt.
A genetic counselor talks about how it not uncommon for parents to feel guilty for ‘giving’ a genetic condition to their child. But Guilt is not a helpful emotion. “I can’t erase the guilt but I can comfort them and help them understand it. We all carry non-working genes. Our genetics are unpredicatble and non-causatory. Can you really be guilty for something you had no control over?”