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This Slate article talks about the issues that children of sperm donors have dealing with the fact that they don't know their biological father. Maybe we should prioritize the discovery of genes related to mental health, happiness, etc. so that eugenically bred kids will be cool with the fact that they aren't very closely related to their parents. (I assume adopted kids deal with similar issues, and some of them probably deal with their issues better than others... could a large-scale genetic analysis be useful?)
(Also breed them for humility and compassion so they won't be stuck-up despite knowing for a fact that they are just plain better than everyone?)
If both types of gametes are possible to create from stem cells, it could make it possible in many more cases for the parents to also be the biological parents of the child, which could largely mitigate this harm. (Not wanting money being involved in one's conception is a different issue, and one I have less intuition for - I'm not squicked out at all by prostitution, for example.)
Being cool with not being directly related to your parents is a question of values, not mental health or intelligence.