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Originally Posted by adysav
Every day decisions are made on parenting by experts in the field of human psychology. Their code of conduct decrees that they be unbiased and work solely in the interests of the children. I contend that these people are a good choice for mentally profiling people to determine their fitness for parenting. The only thing that is questionable is your willingness to accept that these people are qualified to do their jobs because their results do not tally with your view of how the world should be.
Perhaps you know of some way of determining this fitness which proves parents are equally capable, but you're just holding back the information to tease me.
There has still been no reply to the point that foster children are 5 times more likely to die having suffered abuse at the hands of their parents than children who are parented by their biological family.
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I'm not questioning the abilities of psychologists. At least not in this thread. I have no problem accepting that fully trained mental health professionals are qualified to do their jobs.
What is really questionable, and you should think about this, is that you claim to be able to accurately interpret the motivations of mental health professionals using only statistical data. That's some kinda intuition you got there. It is odder still that you seem to be having a difficult time understanding why this doesn't pass muster as an rational basis for your position on this particular subject.
So, you're saying that the consensus among all professionals in the field of human psychology was that woman are fundamentally better parents than men. They seem to be keeping it pretty big secret. One of the patterns i've noticed when it comes to scientific disovery (when it doesn't involve areas of national defense) is that upon the discovery of something the results are made public to be tested by the collective scrutiny of the scientific community. If any group of psychologists had determined credibly that women are better parents than men, they would publish their findings. That is what scientists do. They don't reach some marvelous conclusion with far reaching societal implications and keep it a secret from everybody else. If there was any kind of scientific proof that the above assertion was true than we would have heard about it when the human psychology professionals you are attempting to speak for published their scientifically supported conclusions. Unfortunately for you, they have not published any such study. Why not? Are they trying to keep it a secret, or is there actually no solid scientific basis for such an assertion?