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Originally Posted by wilbjammin
These are social claims that can be backed up with statistics and things such as court settlements. Your global claim has not been backed up by scientific evidence about the nature of humanity at all.
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We are by our nature social animals. I'm not sure how you could test this situation outside of a social context, with it being a little tricky to find people who have never had a social relationship.
Your assumption seems to be that it must be society that shaped this activity, and dismissing the idea that it might be the activity shaping society.
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Originally Posted by wilbjammin
Now, to relate all of this to homosexual parents as foster parents and bearers of surrogate children - Simply, there is no data set to support that it would be unwise or unsafe for homosexual parents to have children. The short-comings of the foster care system don't apply to homosexuals as a subset of all people who have foster children.
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What, just because they're homosexual?
Are you claiming that homosexuals are inherently less abusive than heterosexuals, and if so how did you come to this conclusion? Saying there is no data to support it is not the same as saying there is data to refute it.
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Originally Posted by wilbjammin
That is like saying that because gun violence in the United States is a higher percentage than in other countries, that all gun owners in America are violent.
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This is ridiculous.. it's not saying all foster parents are abusive, but rather a higher percentage of them are than biological parents.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
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... ...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.
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No, this isn't actually what I said. This is not some huge secret survey done by pyschologists. Each case is assessed on an individual basis. If the father is more capable of caring for the child, he gets custody. 90% of the time the mother gets custody. As far as I know there is no publication of findings either way, if the truth were already in plain view there would be no need for discussion here.
p.s.
Interesting points raised
here and
here, including points about the previously quoted studies.