Is it possible to test genetics before you have kids to rule out certain conditions, specifically for parents that have children that don’t function in any capacity or almost no capacity besides violence, the ones that either parents give up their lives or they go into a care facility?

Question

If so how, is it only for ivf?

In: Biology

Answer 1

You can test genetics for heritable traits in the parents before having children, where there’s a likelihood for a particular sperm or egg to carry those genes forward, but unless you do IVF you can’t guarantee it.

You also listed a bunch of things that can’t be tested through genetic or aren’t heritable.