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Originally Posted by filtherton
But your assertion was that women are better parents than men, not that women have an "ethic of care" that men lack. None of this supports the idea that men don't raise children as well as women do, just that women may initially have a stronger connection to a child.
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I understand that it is very difficult to prove a natural predisposition to parenting for various reasons outlined in this thread.
What I was trying to show in the previous few posts is that women naturally possess traits suited to parenting, while men do not.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
Remember, you said that allowing gay marriage would be a bad thing because men aren't as capable of raising children as women are.
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Well, really it's solely about gay parenting. It just seems that people here cannot divorce the two concepts (no pun intended).