According to sociologist Anthony Giddens, one of the defining features of late modernity is that risk has become an organising principal at both the institutional and individual level:
“Traditional cultures didn’t have a concept of risk because they didn’t need one. Risk isn’t the same as hazard or danger. Risk refers to hazards that are actively assessed in relation to future possibilities. It only comes into wide usage in a society that is future-oriented - which sees the future precisely as a territory to be conquered or colonised. Risk presumes a society that actively tries to break away from its past.”
There is really no surprise that risk perception has become an essential part of parental responsibility. The extension of this concept into the familial genetic sphere represents the desire to design the future as to avoid repeating traumas of the past.
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