Oomis, I read your comments and was taken aback Maybe you are B’H healthy and have no need to worry about such things. If someone was going through such things, they would be a bit more sensitive, who take their health for granted and can not understand how hurtful it is for someone to tell others not to have children. So basically what your saying if someone knows they have a hereditary disease, they should not get married. You say one should not relay on miracles, but you know what, we all are relaying on miracles everyday. Everyday, we wake up and we can up our eyes. Everyday second that we can breathe. When we are able to cross the street, and get across safetly that is a miracle. We are all needing miracles to make it through each minute of our lives. For you to say one should not get married,is wrong, who knows what Neshomas are suppose to enter the world. You don’t know the cheshbons of Hashem. Hashem commanded men to get married and have children. What happens if a man decides to not have children, because he has a genetic disease and after a 120 comes before the Creator and is asked “why didn’t he have children?”
I know someone who had a hereditary disease. His mother had it, uncles and a grandparent as well. Half the siblings had the disease and half didn’t. So from what you are saying, is his mother, never should of had kids??? Then the other healthy children, would have never been born. and those healthy children had healthy children as well. So the one of her kids with the disease married and had children and it’s possible that the children may or may not have it or not. Those children shouldn’t get married?? People can be healthy all their lives and they can be taken in a second. Or they can be sick all their lives but still manage to be productive in society. It is not your call to say not to have children.
This is a thread that requires great rabbinical guidence, and the opinions of what the layman have to say are sometimes best kept to themselves.