This is No Clone! They are Different!

You could, using cloning, create a genetic clone of a child that you lost in a car accident or something, but chances are that the new child would not be the same. Almost undoubtedly, parents will expect someone that looks like their child and is genetically the same as their dead child to act the same as their dead child. Though nature determines much of what any particular human is like, another significant part is the circumstance and upbringing. There is absolutely no way to raise the child in the exact same way. The world is different, and the parents are different, therefore the child, even if genetically the same, would be different. There is also research which suggests that hormone washes help to determine the gender of a child, so it could be that you genetically clone a male child, and receive a biological male child with a female gender. Addition there are the worries of cloning a child but having a mutation when the genes are multiplying; the clone a perfectly healthy child with no abnormalities could end up having a deleted, duplicated, or inverted chromosome 15 which would give them autism.

It would also be unhealthy for the parents and the child for the parents to pretend that this clone was to serve to replace their dead child. I can certainly see parents doing this; I can see parents forcing the clone to wear the same clothes, like the same food, sleep in the same bed, and so on, of the dead child.