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Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by fav_collector on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:05PM (#13988332)
To be honest, I think children adopted very early in life would have better childhoods than children raised by their birth parents because

p(parents are generous/caring/loving | parents are the type of person to adopt a child) > p(parents are generous/caring/loving | parents bring pregnancy to term)

In addition, for adopted parents, we know that both parents want the child. Whereas with birth parents, we know that the mother wanted a child but we do not know if the father did.

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Re:New male contraceptive may be submitted for Indian approv... by bashinator on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @02:23PM (#13989122)
> Whereas with birth parents, we know that the mother wanted a child [...]

I can think of many situations where this wouldn't be the case. Poor women in states with restricted access to abortion (requiring multiple visits to a clinic that's hundreds of miles away for example); women trapped in controlling relationships where leaving could be physically risky; teens who get pregnant for socially immature reasons and end up not wanting the child.

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