At the Porsafillo Preschool Academy, all applicants must now submit a DNA analysis of their children.
The preschool is housed in a modern glass and steel building designed by IM Pei. It’s situated in a leafy corner of the Upper West Side. On a recent afternoon, Headmaster Rebecca Unsinn showed off “Porsafillo Pre,” as it’s called.
“Over here, we have computer labs, C++ learning, which of course, as I’m sure you know, is a language of computers,” she says. Wait, computer language? These preschoolers are learning C++?
“Oh, absolutely they are,” Unsinn says. “And they’re very good at it.”
That’s not the only language they’re learning; all the children are also enrolled in a Mandarin Chinese immersion program.
More than 12,000 applications pour into Unsinn’s office each fall. That’s 12,000 hopefuls for just 32 spots a year. It makes Porsafillo Pre the most competitive preschool in the United States.
So in a bid to weed out the kids who have no chance, the school decided to require a DNA test for all applicants. Before she joined the school in 2009, Unsinn was a child neurologist. She was hired specifically to implement this new policy.
Her team is looking for genetic markers that indicate future excellence — things like intelligence, confidence and other leadership traits.
One expectant couple has gone to great lengths to get their future child a spot at Porsafillo.
At the New Amsterdam Memorial Hospital, Richard Tromper and Elizabeth Tauschen are ready for their test. Elizabeth is 24 weeks pregnant, and the couple is applying for admission to Porsafillo for the fall of 2015.
“I went to Princeton,” Tromper says. “I was lucky, I mean, I got into Princeton, I worked hard. But if our child gets into this preschool, he or she IS going.”
Porsafillo Pre is the express lane, the couple says, a one-way ticket to success.
From Tauschen’s blood test, scientists will isolate her unborn baby’s genetic makeup then pass their findings to the admissions office at Porsafillo. The school has an exclusive agreement with the hospital. Tauschen and Tromper are taken into a room beside the lab, the blood is drawn, and the vial is then escorted immediately into the lab. About a month later, results will be delivered to the school.
Both seem to be right from a certain Time perspective.
Newborn child, seconds after birth. The umbilical cord has not yet been cut. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“A woman who underwent sex change gave birth to a child now as a man. He got pregnant although he is a man now.
He has become Britian’s first “male-mother” despite sex change. He gave birth last year after reactivating his womb through hormonal treatment.
Thankfully the womb was intact and was not removed during his sex change, reports The Sunday Times.
However he went through proper investigation and research about health issues if he ended up become pregnant. He took care of all the possible health implications of retaining his womb.
It is suspected that he might have given birth through caesarean although it is is possible the man may have retaiined the ability to give birth naturally.
Beaumont Society, which help individual who want to have sex change, believes that this case might be the first of its kind in Britain. Earlier on such case has been registered each in America and in Spain.
“Father Rich Warren sounded off Sunday on social media sites Redditand Google+ about his upsetting morning: He had woken up to find that Google had suddenly, without warning, shut down his daughter’s e-mail account and blog. His daughter had used her Gmail to send e-mail to her grandparents, friends and classmates, and had started the Blogger blog as a class project.
Warren said he believed both accounts were disabled because his daughter was underage. Under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Web sites collecting information from children under age 13 must take a number of steps to protect the child’s privacy. Warren says he’s not upset with Google for complying with COPPA, but how they went about it.
“Google could have made other choices — choices that are more customer friendly, more child friendly and more parent friendly. But they didn’t,” he wrote on his Google+ account. “They’ve chosen to act apparently without ever considering how their actions might affect the people who use and rely on their services.”
Back in May, Google seemed to encourage children’s memories be shared on Gmail, YouTube, blogs and other services. In a viral video commercial dubbed “Dear Sophie,” a father is shown creating a Gmail account for his baby daughter, and then using it to send her photos, videos, and messages that chronicle her growing up, so that she can read and see them when she’s older:
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