reading more of that final paper ... its not even on if biological or step parents murder there children at the same rate .... its about what methods they use to murder them.
yikes dude. yikes.
reading more of that final paper ... its not even on if biological or step parents murder there children at the same rate .... its about what methods they use to murder them.
yikes dude. yikes.
social conservatism: the mortal fear that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.
Wouldn't want to let the browns and the poors vote.Republicans ripped into the House Democrats* electoral reform bill, H.R. 1, at a press conference Wednesday, arguing that the legislation was merely a tactic to tilt elections in favor of Democrats. McConnell, who has dubbed the bill the *Democrat Politician Protection Act,* said that the bill is *offensive to average voters* and will not get any floor time in the Senate.
When asked at a press conference why he wasn*t bringing the House electoral reform bill to the Senate floor, McConnell responded, with a grin: "Because I get to decide what we vote on.*
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The legislation contains a series of voting reforms Democrats have long pushed for, including automatic voter registration, expansion of early voting, an endorsement of D.C. statehood and a requirement that independent commissions oversee House redistricting. In addition, the bill requires *dark money* groups to disclose donors.
Ever so many citizens of this republic think they ought to believe that the Universe is a monarchy, and therefore they are always at odds with the republic. -Alan Watts
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna980181
You have to wonder who the first republican will be to imply she's a liar or that "boys will be boys".
Ever so many citizens of this republic think they ought to believe that the Universe is a monarchy, and therefore they are always at odds with the republic. -Alan Watts
I work for the company building the Paragon
From the first line of the last link abstract:
After reading your bolded responses, I candidly think it would be a waste of both of our time to discuss further. Relationship Anarchy does not mean "relationship chaos". It's a legit form of open relationship and apparently you're unfamiliar with it.Stepparents commit filicide at higher rates than do genetic parents
and she still voted for brett kavanaugh.
i have feels about this. i do not want to blame someone or imply shes wrong or something for her own rape. however, her voting in brett kavanaugh, when we were just a couple of votes shy of maybe getting a probably not a rapist supreme court justice, really fucking makes me hate her. the lack of self awareness is just staggering.
social conservatism: the mortal fear that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.
agreed if you think that parents murdering there own children and how they do it, has literally any bearing at all in any sense of the imagination, on the viability of child rearing in a poly structure.
at its core level there are really two big issues with this kind of analysis:
1. as detailed, until the stigma of a social situation is removed, the data is skewed and unreliable. we see this with homosexuality, and we are seeing it now as more and more studies come in about transsexual humans. really, the data tests the stigma, not the phenomena being declared unsuccessful. similar with studies on pot usage as well. so right off the bat, your just not getting good data, period. its not an objective analysis, it includes the bias of the social structure the study is based in.
2. like your attempt to take a slight statistical link between step parents being slightly less involved in there step children's lives than biological parents, the implication is that step parents CAN'T be as involved ... however the data does not support this. in fact it supports and teaches the lesson that if you are going to be a step parent you might have to take extra energy in order to stay involved and be a more successful parent, not at all implying you cannot be. the data clearly shows that huge numbers of step parents are very successful at it. the statistics show trends in what large bodies of humans do, but on the individual scale, its basically meaningless. because the individual controls so much of his or her situation, studying what other people do most of the time, is by no means a predictor of what that person will do, especially if they are will informed, emotionally mature, and competent human. and further, like the paper points out, there are significant numbers of step parents who are MORE involved than biological parents, and a person can choose there level of involvement, and take steps to do whatever they fucking want to in regards to there small humans.
ie, attempting to draw some fundamental and all encompassing conclusion from data like this is a bad plan. the data clearly shows a wide range of outcomes regardless of structure, and on the individual level, that means just make smart decisions and dont be an asshole. ie your study does not mean being a step parent is going to be unsuccessful. it doesn't point to some fundamental truth of the universe or some inherent moral value.
example, less than 1% of the country are road racers. this makes it exceedingly rare, and uncommon. it must be hard, expensive, unsafe and take a lot of time. so i should probably not do it right? chances i do it well are really low right? the statistical significance of this massive, and on a much larger scale than the slight statistical difference between commitment from step and bio parents, id expect P <<<<< .05 ... and yet, hundreds of people do it every weekend, without issue, and have a great fucking time doing it. the statistics, as interpreted by you, should mean this is impossible. and yet, it exists.
this isn't how the universe works. if you want to do something, you figure out how to do it, even if the odds are that lots of people don't do it. even if it takes extra effort, resources, if you want to do it, you just do it.
conclusion: a study showing that on the whole, there is a statistical difference in commitment level between bio and step parents does not in any way show some inherent truth to the universe that a 2 adult sexually monogamous relationship is the best way to bring up children for every single man, woman, and child on the earth. its just not, end of story.
Last edited by cockerpunk; 03-07-2019 at 08:01 AM.
social conservatism: the mortal fear that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.
because often we don't have stories to understand something we have not experienced, id point to a couple of really well done IMO stories recently on the subject of ENM. the first one is a British show called "wanderlust" that i've really been enjoying. the other is one of the story-lines in the show "Easy" both can be found on netflix. stories give us context for others experiences, and both have just some delightful moments in them that are really true. both stories follow married couples who've lost the spark, which IMO is annoying, but we have to start somewhere. i can't wait to see stories about ENM that don't involve trying to "fix" a marriage, but we arnt there yet. they decide to open up there relationship to additional partners and they portray the emotions and process so well. as well as the awkwardness, but also the delight, and the fire. neither are perfect, but they do give some context to how it feels and what it looks like, to those that have not experienced it.
social conservatism: the mortal fear that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.
I see Gordon's coming around to the the conservative school of thought that responsibility ultimately rests with individual agency, with the intersectional group identity as a secondary consideration.
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