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Many couples would like to raise children who possess certain traits. In some cases they might prefer to have children who have physical abilities enabling them to perform at a high level in certain sporting activities. Or they might prefer to have children having intellectual capabilities enabling them to enjoy mathematics, or science. Or perhaps they would prefer to have children with traits that would enable them to engage in, and enjoy, various aesthetic pursuits.

Some of the traits that people might like their children to have presumably have a very strong hereditary basis, while others are such as a child, given both the relevant genes, and the right environment, might be more likely to develop. To the extent that the traits in question fall in either of these categories, the production of children via cloning would enable more couples to raise children with traits that they judge to be desirable.