These are some of the most emotionally fraught issues in biology today, raising questions about birth, love, heredity and what it means to be human.
But the political changes in post-Soviet Russia make it a particularly fraught issue.
But it is the fraught issue of generations, of parents and children, that dominates his fiction.
They complain that the government has been too slow in buying up the land and resolving the fraught issue of the graves.
Finally, there is the fraught issue of fighting inflation.
Marriage has always been a fraught issue in the Khama family.
From the late 1960s, parading and marching became a much more fraught issue.
The intersection of books and advertising - disguised or not - has always been a fraught issue.
By its end in 1995, the war had become a fraught and complex issue in Croatia.
But some lawmakers say they are increasingly concerned about such a unilateral approach to issues fraught with constitutional implications.