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Infidelity 'is in the genes'
BBC News ^
| Wednesday, 30 October, 2002, 00:38 GMT
| Staff (Professor Robert Winston)
Posted on 11/01/2002 5:42:36 AM PST by shrinkermd
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Part of the New Age Morality is that there is an explanation for every human foible and no one is responsible for anything.
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To: shrinkermd
One study suggested that one in 10 children are being raised by men who are unaware that they are not the father.
Just one more reason for me to seek a pre-nuptial agreement.
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posted on
11/01/2002 5:46:38 AM PST
by
xrp
To: shrinkermd
...the stronger features they preferred at ovulation... This helps explain certain feminists groups attraction to Janet Reno.
To: Motherbear
Seems to me womens sex drive may be a bit stronger around closing time
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posted on
11/01/2002 5:51:36 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
To: shrinkermd
Part of the New Age Morality is that there is an explanation for every human foible and no one is responsible for anything. That's quite a leap. I suggest that you stay out of tall buildings.
To: shrinkermd
One study suggested that one in 10 children are being raised by men who are unaware that they are not the father. I can hardly believe that. Sounds like so much more Barbra Streisand.
Also sounds like another peer-review avoidance, run stright to the media play.
To: shrinkermd
BS..... I really really doubt the 1 in 10 childen.
This just attempts to make women look immoral and not worth trusting, and excusing those who are cheaters. Kinda like the man needs to spread his seed deal with male cheaters.
Personally I always wanted the masculine man for all areas, not just baby making, but for child raising, bread maker, lover, spouse.
To: Motherbear
LOL, not mine that was when I least wanted it, well after my first child it was.... then I avoided it like the plague.
To: shrinkermd
While her partner might be a better bet to bring up children and support her, another man might carry genes which mean healthier, stronger children. Then the example how the woman picked a father with cystic fibrosis.
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To: shrinkermd
More excuses for bad behavior. The title of this article should be "Infidelity is in the 'jeans'".
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posted on
11/01/2002 6:10:53 AM PST
by
Pete
To: SouthernFreebird
I really really doubt the 1 in 10 childen. That does seem rather unbelieveable, doesn't it? However, this is not a figure plucked out of thin air -- there was an actual study done in the UK and America in which children's paternity was DNA tested and comparable figures (~ 10%) were found. And, it was not done to support some lame academic thesis, but in actual fact, shocked and stunned the investigators. I've forgotten where I read about it, but I think it was in the book Sperm Wars by Robin Baker.
To: xrp
Also one of the reasons that infants tend to most strongly resemble their fathers shortly after birth - to allay fathers' apparently well-founded suspicions on this count.
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posted on
11/01/2002 6:14:47 AM PST
by
Redbob
To: William Terrell
Cystic fibrosis is a recessive trait. Both mother and father must be carriers. Carriers typically appear perfectly healthy.
Recessive traits persist in the gene pool because carrier status confers a survival advantage. Carriers of sickle cell anemia are more resistant to malaria than non-carriers. Carriers of Tay-Sachs more resistant to tuberculosis and carriers of cystic fibrosis more resistant to typhoid.
To: Pete
To: shrinkermd
A few observations:
The husband was a traindriver.
Maybe, not to excuse the philandering wife, she was lonely.
Obviously, if one were to credit the instinct for more masculinity at time of ovulation, to ensure stronger, healthier children, this woman's animal psyche was on the blink, as she produced at least one less than normally healthy child.
Connecting the dots can be so confusing :o
To: shrinkermd
Ah yes, my genes made me do it.
I am powerless in the face of my genes. I am Pavlov's dog and Darwin's moth.... my destiny is already written and all I can do is hold onto the gunwales and shoot through life's rapids.
Choice holds no power for me; it is a mirage, a cosmic joke, a pitiful delusion.
I am not a rock, I am a chemical puppet.
Such garbage.
To: shrinkermd
I always though that part of the purpose of civilization, marriage and faith was so that we could rise above our physical (animal/genetic) nature. In a civilized society, some genetic proclivities should be struggled against and censured. Instead, in modern America, we say "Oh, my genes make me act this way, so it's no big deal."
To: ClearCase_guy
Couldn't have said it better myself.
To: shrinkermd
One study suggested that one in 10 children are being raised by men who are unaware that they are not the father. LOL!
Any single man like myself who has had the experience of being propositioned by married women knows this to be true. Though Chris Rock said it about men, it is true that both men and women are as faithful as their options.
Now, this might not be the case among Conservative Freepers, but in the world at large, women are sleeping around as much as men are, if not more.
As a larger percentage men in American society become feminized slaves to women with agendas, rather then true leaders, I expect it will only get worse.
Who in their right mind would get married today? LOL
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