• St.Elsewhere@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      1/14000 chance a US citizen is a sibling incest baby, though I can’t locate the study at present. I don’t offhandedly know the percentage of babies given up to foster care, but If I had to guess based on foster care’s current numbers? 1-2%.

      That’s a one in a million baby. An experience so rare that it’s not worthwhile for most people to ever consider their circumstances as a human being. Even if it’s real, it’s fake until I meet them in person. But if I do, I’ll listen with care.

        • Or killed to hide the evidence of a crime. I’m not going to assign figures for either, the average is fine enough for what I needed. If someone wants to get exact numbers, they’re welcome to that madhouse.

          • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone
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            According to the figures cited by Wikipedia somewhere between 6% and 26%, maybe, but the latter is real hinky and relies on a study that I can’t even find named or specified as peer reviewed or not (great signs!) in a book that is specifically anti-abortion.

            The 6% number is from a real peer reviewed study, though. And apparently the non-rape adoption rate is around 1%.

            https://doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9378(96)70141-2