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Been thinking about genetics a lot lately...so is it nature or nurture?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 536106" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Then again we do know, that people lives are seriously altered with external factors. Despite the genetics extreme abuse and neglect in early childhood tends to lead to same kind of problems for most of the children who have to suffer through it. Adult, mentally sound people will have very similar pattern of mental problems after they have been through some extreme circumstances. There is some genetic factor, but despite genetics most torture victims will develop severe mental problems. External factors do count.</p><p></p><p>I also have to say, that my two biological kids are not replica of myself or their biological fathers. I myself have done very dissimilar choices and taken the drastically different coarse than my biological parents. My mother was a eternal flower child, with no worries about anything, my father is an artist with a bohemian lifestyle. I'm neurotic upper middle class former SAH and soccer mom and now having very conventional and boring day job. My mother's choices and lifestyle was very dissimilar than her biological parents etc. Of course genetics do count, but they are not everything.</p><p></p><p>I also have to say, that many adopted kids I know have a lot of similarities to their adopted parents even though many are different race and almost all are foreign toddler or older children adoptions of institutionalized children. Some have had problems, some kids are special needs, but most are doing just fine. We don't really have many domestic adoptions outside of family because of different system (children in foster care can not be adopted without birth parents permission even if birth parents wouldn't had even wanted to see a kid in ten years and kid had been all that time in same foster family and we don't really have pro-life movement so if you don't want a kid and are pregnant, you just choose abortion) so all, who want to adopt have to adopt from foreign country, China, Thailand, South-Africa, Russia and Ethiopia being the most popular right now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 536106, member: 14557"] Then again we do know, that people lives are seriously altered with external factors. Despite the genetics extreme abuse and neglect in early childhood tends to lead to same kind of problems for most of the children who have to suffer through it. Adult, mentally sound people will have very similar pattern of mental problems after they have been through some extreme circumstances. There is some genetic factor, but despite genetics most torture victims will develop severe mental problems. External factors do count. I also have to say, that my two biological kids are not replica of myself or their biological fathers. I myself have done very dissimilar choices and taken the drastically different coarse than my biological parents. My mother was a eternal flower child, with no worries about anything, my father is an artist with a bohemian lifestyle. I'm neurotic upper middle class former SAH and soccer mom and now having very conventional and boring day job. My mother's choices and lifestyle was very dissimilar than her biological parents etc. Of course genetics do count, but they are not everything. I also have to say, that many adopted kids I know have a lot of similarities to their adopted parents even though many are different race and almost all are foreign toddler or older children adoptions of institutionalized children. Some have had problems, some kids are special needs, but most are doing just fine. We don't really have many domestic adoptions outside of family because of different system (children in foster care can not be adopted without birth parents permission even if birth parents wouldn't had even wanted to see a kid in ten years and kid had been all that time in same foster family and we don't really have pro-life movement so if you don't want a kid and are pregnant, you just choose abortion) so all, who want to adopt have to adopt from foreign country, China, Thailand, South-Africa, Russia and Ethiopia being the most popular right now. [/QUOTE]
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