Posted on 03/22/2014 1:16:53 PM PDT by markomalley
Don’t you mean Linda Graham?
> We adopted my youngest and she is just as sharp as our two
> birth children despite a genetic history that would seem to
> suggest otherwise.
We’ve adopted children of various ages. The younger they are when you adopt them, the better your chances are of overcoming any genetic predispositions. We have one, however, that we adopted when he was just a little over a year old. His behavior at age 17 is just awful, no matter what. We have another we adopted at about the same age, who is nothing at all like him, even though she is related by blood line.
By my observation, it’s partially genetics, partially upbringing, but mostly the choices one makes as s/he grows. What influences those choices is anybody’s guess.
When I was younger, there was a family in which some of the boys grew up to be cops and firemen, but a couple of them grew up to be gangsters and crooks. Same family, same parents, same genetic makeup, very different outcomes.
You could say it was in the company that the different kids chose, but, why would they choose those kinds of friends anyway?
And people wonder why I support Assad winning. Assad may be evil, but he pales in comparison to the “opposition”
I tend towards that view. There were some recent scientific studies showing that somehow, events and information can be passed to a person’s descendants. They don’t know yet how that happens. If that is true, then barbarism could be a tendency that the children of rapists might have.
Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Slaughter Christian Woman
Posted By Raymond Ibrahim On April 3, 2014 In Daily Mailer,FrontPage
On Friday, March 28, in Ain Shams, a suburb of Cairo, Muslim Brotherhood supporters attacked the Virgin Mary and Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church, including by opening fire on it and setting parked cars aflame. Four people died.
One of the slain, a young Coptic woman, was savagely mauled and molested before being murdered—simply because her cross identified her as a Christian to the Brotherhood rioters.
According to an eyewitness who discussed the entire event on the Egyptian program, 90 Minutes, Mary Sameh George was parking by the church to deliver medicine to a sickly, elderly woman:
Once they saw that she was a Christian [because of the cross hanging on her rear view mirror], they jumped on top of the car, to the point that the vehicle was no longer visible. The roof of the car collapsed in. When they realized that she was starting to die, they pulled her out of the car and started pounding on her and pulling her hair—to the point that portions of her hair and scalp came off. They kept beating her, kicking her, stabbing her with any object or weapon they could find…. Throughout [her ordeal] she tried to protect her face, giving her back to the attackers, till one of them came and stabbed her right in the back, near the heart, finishing her off. Then another came and grabbed her by the hair, shaking her head, and with the other hand slit her throat. Another pulled her pants off, to the point that she was totally naked.
The eyewitness, as well as many others who have since appeared on videos, complained about Egyptian State Security and how it did not intervene—just like under Morsi, when St. Mark Cathedral was besieged, even as security stood by—how it knows exactly who the murderers are, and how one of Mary’s murderers, whom “everyone reported to Security,” was simply relaxing in his home, not even hiding.
Added the eyewitness: “Let me tell you, here in Ain Shams, we [Christians] know that every Friday is a day of death; that the day after Friday, Saturday, we’ll be carried to the morgue!”
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