Love and Globalization

I agree with the statement that globalization has transformed local ideas and practices of love all over the world into western forms of love. Having the ability to produce a family is admired and appreciated all over the world. Although, there are obviously people in the world in other cultures that are not able to conceive. The question then submerges emerges? as to how they will be able to have a child and not miss out on forming a family. The era of conventional child bearing has now come to an end since the early 1980’s. A man and a woman who may have not been able biologically have a child of their own or who would have had to adopt a child can now since the last thirty years produce a child of their own genetic makeup because of advances in technology; all over the world. This is a beautiful break-through and may add to the notion of a balanced relationship for married couples. (Cunnigham,1999, 140).

In Vitro Fertilization was first introduced in 1978 and has been used successfully to fill voids in homes in Britain. The idea of a man and a woman being married but not able to have a child of their own used to be melancholy wrong word and a dreaded situation for a married couple to deal with in any home from any part of the world, but in vitro fertilization has been a major contribution in adding a loved one and hope to an empty household. In vitro fertilization, eggs are gathered from the woman's ovaries and mixed with the man's sperm in a medical lab. The actual fertilization takes place in a testube instead of the woman’s uterus to produce a baby. (Cunningham, 1999, 140).

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In vitro fertilization was not easily accepted globally until after 1978 but the debate of not being able to have a child biologically and the obvious void and negative result it may have on a person was always up for...