Genetic counseling is a complex process and does not appear to have a single definition. From a purely biological point of view, genetic counseling consists of “diagnosing and classifying a genetic disease; identify unaffected carriers of a defective gene to inform them about the risk of having affected children; identify a serious genetic disease before the clinical onset of symptoms in order to improve quality of life…” On the surface, the work of a genetic counselor is practical, helpful, and appears to serve a purpose for parents, or potential parents. Others choose to define it with a higher percentage of social implications within the definition. For example, “…help people try to understand and deal with the effects on their lives and the lives of their families.” It is important not to ignore the broad social persuasion a client might experience if they learned that their child, or potential child, may be genetically predisposed to the disease. Although genetic counselors claim to be supportive of clients and not involved in decisions a client may make, there is little consideration of the social pressures involved in making certain decisions. Genetic counseling is proof that the concept of eugenics still exists in our current culture and should be carefully monitored to ensure that our standards do not become immoral. Eugenics is the process of improving the human species by selectively breeding humans to a standard. This standard seems to depend on the culture that is legislating it. For example, the Nazi government believed that the Aryan race, described as having blue eyes and blond hair, was the ideal specimen to pass on its genes. Between 1925 and 1940,...... half of the document......d Parental Reports.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364, no. 1522 (27 May 2009): 1359–1367. doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0328.Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity. Harvard University Press, 1985. Ritvo, Edward R., Ria Ritvo, B.J. Freeman, and Anne Mason-Brothers. “Clinical features of mild autism in adults.” Comprehensive Psychiatry 35, no. 2 (March 1994): 149–156. doi:10.1016/0010-440X(94)90061-L.Sequeiros, Jorge, Milena Paneque, Barbara Guimaraes, Elina Rantanen, Poupak Javaher, Irma Nippert, Jorg Schmidtke, Helena Kaariaainen, Ulf Kristoffersson, and Jean-Jacques Cassiman. “The wide variety of definitions of genetic testing in international recommendations, guidelines and reports.” Journal of Community Genetics 3, no. 2 (April 2012): 113–124. doi:10.1007/s12687-012-0084-2.