The sobering finding of an adoption study. We need to walk away from magical thinking and genetic fallacies, for example, the fallacy that biological parents automatically make better parents than adoptive parents. Another one is the fallacy that a woman automatically makes a better parent than a man. Once we liberate ourselves from these fallacies we can think more clearly. Once the dust settles, we can see that the critical question we should ask ourselves is do we want our society’s children to be raised by only one parent or two? Clearly, the optimal arrangement is 2 parents, a man and a woman. Longitudinal studies show that the biological children of two parent homes have better career and educational outcomes and commit less dysfunctional and criminal behaviour than the biological children of one parent homes. In short, they become more productive citizens who more often contribute wealth to society rather than be a drain to it. Read more: https://paulcarr.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/my-thoughts-on-paternal-surrenderpaternal-abortion/#adoption #magicthinking #geneticfallacy #biologicalparents #adoptiveparents #longitudinalstudies #williambradfordwilcox #nicholaszill #instituteforfamilystudies #USDepartmentofeducation #2parenthomes #singleparenthomes #physicalhealthimpairments #psychologicalimpairments #academicattainment #attachmentissues #emotionalattainment #positivelaw #monogamousmarriage #monogamy https://www.instagram.com/p/B5sdFrAB3VJ/?igshid=1ipc7ybqwsqyj
