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In a lot of the readings it has been made clear that one of the largest differences between men and women is the reproductive aspect, women can have babies and men cannot. In class we talked about the ability to have children over the choice of adoption and how that would affect the family. What we didn't really touch on was the dirty stuff, the human nature, our internal drives that we try to suppress. It is evolutionarily our nature to enhance and further our gene-pool. Therefore, because men cannot physically have children, they get their wives or other females pregnant thus, extending their genes another generation. Does this mean that when a child is adopted the father or mother does not love the child? I would argue that in some cases strictly due to our human nature that it is harder to invest as much love for a child that does not carry your own genetic material than for a child that does. That is not to say a parent of an adopted child will not love their child to the best of their ability or would love another child more. It is strictly the laws of human nature to want to enhance your gene pool .