A bold statement.
Had it happened one year later? Well, Roe v. Wade may have altered my life.
I have personal experience with two separate issues that just cause my blood pressure to skyrocket when I read a statement like “...Children always are better with their biological parents...”
In the first case, I know a man that had a relationship with a woman that resulted in two children. A massive mistake as he admits (not the kids, the relationship) He went to jail for assault, did his time, and turned his life around. He now has legal custody of the two children, who with the help of their paternal grandparents and a capable father (him) are coming around nicely. But while he was in jail and during the time afterwards when he fought for the kids, the DYS mandated that the kids lived with their mother. She is a schizophrenic prostitute who refused to take her medication living in the same house with her convicted pedophile father, and was also engaging in illegal scams. But no matter what, it was only when their father got out of jail, turned his life around and went to court for full time custody of those kids did he get them. DYS would not even consider letting the paternal grandparents have custody. In those two years he was in jail, plus the years after that this fellow fought for custody, those kids were in dire danger (and may have suffered abuse) and did suffer psychological damage. All because the state has the motto “the mother is AlWAYS best for the children”. If this guy had been one of those guys like the majority of those you hear about, those kids would be screwed for life.
In another situation, I know a woman who had a sister that married a Greek guy, had six or seven kids by him, and he took all their money and disappeared one day and went back to Greece without a word. These kids were all about a year apart. The mother was not bad or evil, just slow and not really suited to raising one kid on her own (never mind seven) and when DYS finally got word of it, they were living in an apartment littered with dog feces, partially clothed, feeding themselves on Cheerios and sour milk. The woman’s sister (who had a husband and two kids of her own, living in a small apartment of her own) had to fight to take custody of these seven kids which she did. For several years, they raised these kids as their own, who turned out to be wonderful (one is an officer in the Army now and just came back from Iraq) but this was all done against the will of the state. They had to fight for those kids. Eventually, the biological mother got her act together and got her kids back, but the state fought as hard as it could to destroy the lives of those kids by ensuring they were with their “biological mother” because that is what the state says is “best”. It was only through the compassion, diligence and hard work of her sister and husband that these kids were not lost forever in that shit-hole DYS (Department of Youth Services) system.
And these are just two examples. The fixation on the biological mother is, in my opinion, criminal. While it may be true in many cases, that they treat it as an absolute is an abomination.
I doubt that Charles Manson's kids feel that way.