Don’t forget calling the cops when she found out her nephew might be sexually active – because she just KNEW that the girl’s parents were going to accuse him of rape and throw him in jail.
But then she goes all half cocked and generalizes it to everyone. Stuff like this:
There isn’t one monolithic evil adoption community bent on a path of destruction and kid destroying.
The girl’s father threatened to do just that when he found out his little angel was my nephew’s little sexbuddy.
Yep. Family should always step in when possible - one of my cousins was adopted by her aunt when her mother (the cousin’s mother, the aunt’s sister) died suddenly (the father had disappeared much earlier).
Wait, you’re kidding. Dare I believe that there is a thread on this somewhere?
Several. SEVERAL threads. And if she sees a woman shaking hands without reservation, deep down she thinks that woman is a whore.
ETA - well, probably not deep down. Probably right all up in the conscious mind.
This is the origin.
Beware, yon unwary traveler. Clicke the linke if ye must, but know that there there be draggons, and what one hast seen, forever will it lurk in ye braine, for unseen it cannot be.
Evil cackle, and disappears into the mist
I was in a receiving line recently at a wedding and kept cracking up at the gang-hand-rape. It’s invaded my real life in a very funny way.
So, you think rape is funny, do you?? :dubious:
It’s my understanding that, in the U.S., the reason children are adopted is because their parents have no interest in caring for them and want them to be raised by strangers. And also that parents are intensely screened so they weed out people who would want kids for weird narcissistic deluded reasons (whatever the fuck that would mean). But yeah, maybe I’m ill-informed about the adopted children that were kidnapped from their birth parents and sold as playthings for the idle rich. Or maybe I’m just not a fucking nutjob.
Seeing as my father and my best friend are adopted I’m going to place myself firmly in the adoption isn’t inherently bad camp. I mean sure, they’ve both killed some women (and a couple of times they even shook their hands first) but God, they’re fun to hang out with.
Oooo we’re in the pit? ZPG Zealot, you have numerous views that make you utterly repugnant. However, I think the most disgusting thing about you is that you actively worked as a fortune teller. Ask the fortune-teller - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board
Show me a link that implies adoption causes people to believe in that horseshit, or considerably worse, think it’s ok to peddle it, and maybe I’ll change my mind about it. Does anywhere here seriously believe that a fortune teller can hold the moral high ground over a serial killer?
Gold.
Well, I… hate to be the one taking the risky moral stance, but… yes. Yes, I do.
Is that true?
Dear god, don’t let the Birthers see this thread.
Please repost this if you or someone you know has been the victim of a handrape…
But if they tell you they are going to kill you and it comes true then the two evils cancel out. Or have I been doing it wrong?
Don’t fortune tellers read palms? That’s like raping you and telling you what each stroke means isn’t it?
See, it all depends on the style of fortune telling. There is nothing wrong with a psychological cold reading of someone and giving them mild advice [I see a tall dark man in your future, if you will change your hair to red… you know, the usual carnival stuff where you can do a mild change in appearance or action to help them primp a bit better, or get someone to control their anger around family… sort of psychology lite] as opposed to running scams on them [Your belongings are cursed, I can take the curse off them , put $500 in this envelope and we will bury it by the light of the moon …]
I had a non gypsy friend who worked for PRN back in the mid 90s, she could do a cold reading card layout that was amazing. She didn’t believe in it, she was doing it for a job.
Yes. However -
[ul][li]Most homosexuals are not serial killers[/li][li]Most serial killers are not homosexual[/li][li]Correlation is not necessarily causality.[/li][li]The sample size of serial killers is very small, and thus it is difficult to derive valid conclusions from any characteristic.[/ul][/li]
Regards,
Shodan
There is so much crazy in this thread, I don’t even know where to start.
There is a statistically significant correlation between the mental health of the adoptee and the mental health of the birthparents. As well as the criminal status of the adoptee as an adult and the criminal status of the birthparent. Some of this has been alluded to - adoption statistics and foster care statistics are often confounded, population lines are not always clear. There is a obvious non-statistical difference in a child adopted at birth by strangers, one legally adopted and raised by grandma, one adopted as a toddler after institutional care, and one adopted as a teen out of foster care - and obviously a difference when the child “matches” the racial characteristics of its adoptive family and community, and when a child of color is raised by white people in white suburbs. Some of it is genetics - it is theorized that people who have mental health issues make poorer choices - and end up pregnant. (All this from "Launching A Baby’s Adoption, by Patricia Irwin Johnson).
In Sweden, a study on multiracial adoption showed MUCH higher rates of suicide among multiracial adoptees. It was theorized that this had more to do with the multiracial nature (Sweden is a pretty white place) than with the adoption, as there is a statistical difference when looking at white adoptees in Sweden, or multiracial adoptees in multiracial communities. (Sorry, no cite on that one - the study would have been run around 1998 - it was published about the time we adopted our son).
I wouldn’t say (adoptive parent, daughter of an adoptee) that adoption is never a factor in mental illness or sociopathic behavior, but there are a lot of other variables at play in adoption, some that have held up to study when you dig deeper.