This is brief, I have to go out shortly.
On the 90% custody issue, slap it in a search engine and you will find it, you're just sidetracking the issue by unnecessarily nitpicking every little detail.
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Originally Posted by wilbjammin
Exactly!!!! So, now that <i>you admit that you can't prove that some people are naturally better parents than others due to the social context</i> in the absence of having <u>specific scientific evidence</u> to back this up (rather than social observations). Again, you can make claims about our society and culture, but you are lacking when it comes to how people "naturally" are. We need more evidence.
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Our social behaviour is a result of our how we naturally are. Having a child is a social activity and it is also a natural activity. In this case the social context
is a natural context.
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Originally Posted by wilbjammin
Since openly homosexual couples have often been turned away from getting foster children, my thinking is that there is no way to associate those figures to that subset of society either way. For all I know, homosexuals may be more abusive. But I'd need data specific to homosexuals to make any conclusions.
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Why? Because homosexual can be equally good parents but not equally bad parents? If your claim is that there is no difference between homo and hetero parenting, the statistics are valid.