Desrtopa comments on Review: Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids - LessWrong

17 Post author: jsalvatier 29 May 2012 06:00PM

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Comment author: Desrtopa 28 May 2012 07:09:55PM 14 points [-]

I suspect that families who adopt are likely to fall into a particular cluster of parenthood values, but I'd be hesitant to actually try to detail those values without reference to any actual study. I would speculate though, that they might be less invested in seeing their children grow up to be similar to themselves.

Comment author: DSimon 31 May 2012 06:55:22PM 10 points [-]

I'd further speculate that adoptive parents have on average more prior interest in raising children than biological parents.

Comment author: jsalvatier 30 May 2012 02:10:51AM 1 point [-]

That's a pretty plausible bias.