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Been thinking about genetics a lot lately...so is it nature or nurture?
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 535238" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>I do think, in terms of adopted kids, that the best thing for children is to stay with their biological parents where possible and that this is probably far better for them than being adopted out. I know that this is a controversial viewpoint and an odd one for me to hold, perhaps, given that I have adopted... but the reasons women give their children up for adoption are very bound up with society and with others, not necessarily at all what they really "want". And I think adoption is risky, at best. Nature also wants children to stay with their own and be nurtured by them. Not the way our imperfect world is. But is it any wonder that adopted kids, especially boys, have so very hard a time of it, often.</p><p>As for nature vs nurture... I do suspect, also, that nature is the lion's share of it. And what do we even mean by that? It is possible, for example, that my adopted son's birth mother drank or used drugs during the pregnancy; that is a terrible kind of "nurture" isn't it, that would change his "nature" definitively.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 535238, member: 11227"] I do think, in terms of adopted kids, that the best thing for children is to stay with their biological parents where possible and that this is probably far better for them than being adopted out. I know that this is a controversial viewpoint and an odd one for me to hold, perhaps, given that I have adopted... but the reasons women give their children up for adoption are very bound up with society and with others, not necessarily at all what they really "want". And I think adoption is risky, at best. Nature also wants children to stay with their own and be nurtured by them. Not the way our imperfect world is. But is it any wonder that adopted kids, especially boys, have so very hard a time of it, often. As for nature vs nurture... I do suspect, also, that nature is the lion's share of it. And what do we even mean by that? It is possible, for example, that my adopted son's birth mother drank or used drugs during the pregnancy; that is a terrible kind of "nurture" isn't it, that would change his "nature" definitively. [/QUOTE]
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