… Despite the latest propaganda in favor of a father-optional future, this study suggests two stubborn truths: Children long to know and be known by their biological fathers, and they are much more likely to thrive when they have their own father in their lives.
Saturday, June 26, 2010, 10:39 AM
June 26th, 2010 | 8:44 pm | #1
While culture will probably continue down this very confusing road of reproduction, nothing is going to change their perspective until the church, the regular people in the pew, understands these issues and influences the people in their lives to adopt a biblical understanding of the family and of human dignity.
June 27th, 2010 | 10:24 am | #2
I think it’s paramount, however, that we not frame the arguments in a way that makes adopted kids feel like second class children. We ought to encourage adoption as (in general) superior to the use of extraordinary technology to conceive genetically-related children, so the argument can’t simply be based on the morally inferior status of not knowing your genetic parent.
Part of the issue is the use of expensive and extraordinary means, which is also one of the key features of why some cases of passive euthanasia might be morally allowable when death is imminent but why many cases are still immoral (because what is withheld is not extraordinary means).
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