Can Love Be Stronger Than Blood?

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America was founded on the insignificance of blood. That is why this country— it is one of the major reasons that America has succeeded beyond the wildest imagination of human beings. It is that America, as one writer put it, Lawrence Harrison, coined the term familism. He asked a very simple question: how come the United States thrived far more than Latin America did? They value blood so much in Latin America that unless you were blood, they didn't trust you.

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Welcome to The Dennis Prager Show, the Ultimate Issues Hour. Every week at this time, I talk about some great issue of life, and this one I have— I cannot think of a subject about which I have more passion. There may be subjects about which I have equivalent passion, but I cannot think of any about which I have more And that is the insignificance of blood. The insignificance of blood, which runs against the vast majority of human history, which has placed primary significance on blood relations. You are my flesh and blood, and therefore I have special love, I have special I have special whatever for you, with you. The placing of the blood clan, of the blood tribe, or the blood ethnic group above all others because of blood. The belief that that is the primary human value in others. You're either blood-related or you are not. And of course, it raises the all-time great issue, and that is adoption. Where there are people who still believe that somehow or other there is something different about a child adopted than a blood child. And that is my subject because it is as primitive as the human gets to place this primary emphasis on blood. It's not really blood, of course. It's called blood. Uh, it's really, uh, more, uh, uh, uh, egg and semen. It's— that's what it's really about. I love my seed, and if you are my seed, then you have special status. And there are still people who believe that, people who consider themselves to be part of modern life who still believe that blood trumps just about everything. And it doesn't, and I'd like to make that case and change your mind. I really do. This is one of those cases where clarity is, of course, more important than agreement. I always have that, but I fully acknowledge that I would like to change your mind if you don't think that way. If you think that blood— and blood has become more and more important in America, not less. America was founded on the insignificance of blood. That is why this country— it is one of the major reasons that America has succeeded beyond the wildest imagination of human beings. It is that America, as one writer put it, and I will try to remember his name because I always try to I try to cite sources to give them credit. Lawrence, I don't know, it's Lawrence something, I had him on, he wrote a book and he coined the term "familism." He asked a very simple question. The United States and the rest of the Western Hemisphere have somewhat similar topographies, have a very, very you know, benign weather, largely speaking, founded by Christians from Europe, at least, you know, the modern Western Hemisphere. How come the United States thrived far more than Latin America did? And the answer that he gave was— and this man has spent his life helping Latin Americans. He was with USAID his whole life. He's now a professor. Lawrence Harrison, that's it. Lawrence Harrison. Dennis Prager. And he, he, he, the book was about why do some countries succeed, and he spoke about familism, and that is discrimination on the basis of family, that they value blood so much in Latin America that unless you were blood, they didn't trust you. Whereas in the United States, they didn't care if you were blood so long as you could do the job. A huge difference. We valued, and of course doesn't mean every American, But by and large, our culture has valued excellence, has valued merit much more than blood. That's why anybody of any race, of any background can become an American, and we couldn't care less. "Can you do the job?" is our question, not "Who was your father?" But in the rest of the world, "Who was your father?" That was a— or your mother or your grandparents— that was the big question, not "Can you do the job?" I remember during the Saddam Hussein era, he trusted only his family basically. Only, remember he put his two monstrous sons in great positions of power because those are the only ones he could, in the final analysis, trust. The same thing in North Korea where you had Kim Il-sung and then Kim Jong-il where the father only trusted the son, blood, blood, blood, blood. And so you have blood-based versus merit-based society. 1-800-PRAGER-776. If you have any issue with this, and especially vis-à-vis adoption, I would love to hear from you. I fully acknowledge that I, in this way, I have so Americanized. America is so the land of non-blood, non-ethnicity. It is the land of merit. Abraham Lincoln said, "I don't care who my grandfather was nearly as much as what his grandson will become." I love that. I love that line, and I love this idea that you are who you are because of who you are, not because of your blood status. When I hear people wondering— I mean, I've gotten these calls throughout my career as a talk show host, people saying, oh, you know, my, my, you know, we would like— we don't have children, or we do, but we'd like to adopt, but it's hard to imagine that we could bond with a child that is not our seed. You know, not our blood as much as a blood child. You ask anybody who's adopted a child how absurd that is. It's like telling people that the, I don't know, the sky is chartreuse. It's so, it's totally wrong. It's not even a partial truth. It's 100% drivel. I mean, would you love your child less if you found out now through DNA that it wasn't a DNA child? Tell me, tell me. I mean, think about it. You would swap your 5-year-old, you find out your 5-year-old was incorrectly swapped at the hospital. Hotel, I was going to say. At the hospital. Oh, oh, then let me give it back. I mean, there are people who would do that. I don't understand them. If somebody showed up at my door and said, you know, I'm your blood child, you know, you were, when you were in your, having your heyday in your 20s in Europe, which it would be very unlikely for a whole host of reasons, but in any event, let's say it happened. You think I would have a bond? I would have curiosity, but I wouldn't have a bond. I would hope that this child had good parents who raised him or her, and that would be the end of it. I wouldn't even interfere. I'm not attached to my children out of blood. I'm attached to my children because I raised them. You raise your children, you love them. You don't raise your children, you don't love them. And it doesn't matter. So it's— all right, let's hear. I'm very curious to get those of you who differ with me and of those of you who agree with me. But this is the Ultimate Issues Hour on one of the ultimate issues of life, and that is the insignificance of blood relation. The insignificance— love is infinitely more important than blood. Values are infinitely more important than blood. And if you stick with me this hour, I think I could change your mind. I really do, if you're open— if that is, if you're open at all to hearing. Take the first, uh, dissenting call. David in Los Angeles, thank you for calling. This is Dennis Prager. Hi, David.

Hi, Dennis. Um, you know what, I completely disagree with you. I think blood is far more important, and I think it— evidence is itself when you look at twins or a mother-son relation, mother-daughter relation. I've heard of twins being distances apart and reading each other's minds, wearing the same clothes, purchasing the same goods. Or a mother sensing that something is wrong with her son and the son is far away and something may have happened and she senses it deep. I think that's a blood connection, a spiritual connection that develops in the womb. Additionally, a father-son relationship. My father and I hadn't seen each other for about 15 years, and when we saw each other, uh, suddenly in one location we were supposed to meet, I could sense him being in the area.

Wow.

And that's all because of blood, because had he raised you and you not been blood, he wouldn't have sensed you.

Well, I don't think everything is chemical and, you know, chromosome DNA related. I think there's a spiritual connection also, a spiritual via blood. Spiritual? No. Well, developing in the womb, there's a—

you know, it's interesting that, uh, there is a book that has undermined permanently any belief that I had in the importance of blood. It's the first 5 books of the Bible, known to Jews as the Torah, known, uh, known to, uh, non-Jews as the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses. And there are twins there, and they're called Jacob and Esau. They hate each other's guts their whole life, even in the womb. It's to smash this idiocy that there is some blood importance. Back in a moment.

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Hi everybody and welcome back. We are We are— what are we? I have to finish the sentence. We are engaged in the Ultimate Issues Hour. I'm Dennis Prager. An hour each week at this time on some great issue of life. The insignificance of blood, absolutely one of my all-time favorite issues. Insignificance of blood. It shows, by the way, the people who believe that there is some, uh, some blood importance, uh, it shows how reason, uh, is, is not been a highly developed attribute even in, in our contemporary civilization. You think people go to college and people go to graduate school and they develop particularly rational ways of thinking, but they don't. In fact, they're as emotionally driven as people, if not, if not even more so than in the past. And one of them is this notion about the importance of blood. People who, for example, I mean, it's all over the place, uh, Obviously the adoption issue is the most obvious where people really think still, including college graduates, you know, well, I don't know, can you really bond if it's not your own blood, your own seed? Like it matters. Like it's unbelievable. They bond with the dog. This cracks me up. People will bond with their dog, with their cat, and then tell me that they can't bond with their child unless it's blood. Now folks, unless you have somehow conceived your dog but with, uh, through a form of bestiality. I mean, nobody can argue to me that your, your, your dog is blood. So you'll have these people with these romanticized notions of their bond with their dog, but then argue, well, I, you know, unless my child is blood, I really, I would never be able to really bond with it. The lack of serious thought Is what employs me. Do you realize that? If everybody thought clearly, I'd have another profession. There would be no need for this program. I would do photography. I would teach high school. I have a lot of other dream thoughts, but it's conducting. Yeah, well, I don't know that. I would keep that as an avocation. But it's really— this is the perfect example. Oh, my dog is a member of my family, but I could never imagine adopting a human. I'm laughing because my alternative is really to cry. All right, where is this guy? Ah, come on, it was an adopted guy. Where is he? He took— yeah, there we go. Here it is. I wanted this one. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dan. Hi, Dan. Dennis Prager.

Hi Dennis, I can't agree with you more.

I'm—

my whole family's adopted. We had 4 children that were adopted very, very young and a foster child that was brought into our family when she was in high school. And, and quite honestly, I would almost look at it from the reverse. I mean, my biological parents would be people that I would walk by on the street and smile and say, have a nice day. I know where my parents are.

Yes, exactly. Not only that, people who romanticize the biological Why did they do that exactly? Because of the supremely great record of parenting that bio— do you know that there is actually a study? I wonder if you know this, Dan. It's in my favorite of my 4 books, Think a Second Time, because I have 100 pages there, or 80 pages just on blood, on this blood issue. So you would love this. It's again, I don't care, get a used copy, but get it. You would love it. There is a study I cite Dennis Prager, where they found that kids who were adopted actually did better on virtually every single barometer in life than kids adopted at birth. I don't mean adopted at 10, where there could be other pre-existing issues, but adopted at birth or near birth did better on every personality test, academic achievement, happiness levels, and so on.

In my family, we always knew we were adopted. There was never a question. We were told right from the get-go.

That's right.

The other thing that's fun is that I used to tease my friends, you know, they'd get on the whole, oh, you're adopted, and it's pretty cool because you can look at them and go, yeah, well, my parents chose me. Yours were stuck with you.

Yes, that's right. That's one way of looking at it. Fair enough. Thank you, Dan. By the way, it shows, incidentally, how— and I've said this and I have no problem saying it again— women have their own battles with their nature, just as we men have with our nature. We have to battle our nature in the areas of physical aggression and sexual predatory nature. Women have to battle their, their emotions overwhelming their reason. We— each sex has its battle. That is why far more adopted girls go on searches for biological parents than adopted boys do, because their emotions overwhelm their thought process, as if there's something significant about whose uterus I was in? And even more incredible—whose semen conceived me? Now that's a big one! Oh man, it just rivets me. It's... All right, Brandon in Denver, Colorado.

Brandon, Dennis Prager, thank you for calling.

Dennis, you're at least halfway wrong on this—and I hate to say that—but I think you're paying more attention to emotional connections between parents and children, and in that respect. It doesn't matter if you're adopted or blood, but the Bible does speak about generational curses that were the sins of the father and things that they struggle with get passed on down to the children.

Yeah, but it has nothing to do with blood. You mean, you mean as in, as in the Ten Commandments where God remembers the sins of the fathers on the children? No. So then where?

Definitely about generational curses.

Like where?

It would be in the New Testament. I don't know exactly where. But you do have a spiritual connection with your parents because you're a created mind, body, and soul. And if you're adopted, you can have the same mind and the same body and have the same emotions and all of that. But not what? You always miss out on the soul connection that you have with your parents.

You believe that? Yes, absolutely. Okay, all right.

You know what, I have a motto, and I thank you so much for calling. I never argue beliefs. I can argue reason, I can argue values, but I never argue beliefs. It's, it's, it's a waste of time. So if you believe that, it's, it transcends all rational discussion. So I have nothing to say. It, it, there's no— it doesn't actually exist in reality. I mean, the, the staggering number of, of alienations between blood parents and, and blood children, and of course a lot of wonderful, beautiful ones, uh, but, but, but it is no different than, than the good attachments of, of the, of, of the non-blood parent, uh, it's, it's, uh, all right, anyway, as I say, I can't argue beliefs, I can only argue on a rational basis, and that's what I'm, that is in fact what I am doing. Uh, let's go to, um, let's go to Mendel in San Bernardino, California. Mendel, Dennis Prager, thank you for calling.

Hi, Mr. Prager. I think I have more of a question than a challenge, and the question is, do you think parents are being overly blood loyal when they give their inheritance to their biological children as opposed to their favorite charity or to children who are—

I don't think of their inheritance It's a fine question, Mendel, but it has nothing to do with blood. It has to do with being a child. I don't think that adoptive parents are any less or more likely to give the same inheritance over to their children. Your child is— all I'm saying, your child is your child irrespective of the blood connection. So where your child is your child not through blood, you may— you'll still give your inheritance to the child. Back in a moment. Hi everybody and welcome back. This is the Ultimate Issues Hour on the Dennis Prager Show. Every week at this time, an hour devoted to some great issue of life, and to today it is the insignificance of blood. The, the, uh, far more important are values and love, and it applies to adoption, it applies to Klan and ethnic solidarity, it applies, uh, to, uh, um The way civilizations develop, as I pointed out, Lawrence Harrison in his book, and I got the name of the book and I thank Alan for it, the book is Who Prospered: How Cultural Values Shape Economic and Political Success. Who Prospered? And America prospered because it cared more about whether you could do the job than whether you were related. But in much of the world, related trumps everything else. And the adoption issue is the most obvious, but it's not the only one. I mean, you have today— again, the college-educated are usually the most emotional and least rational on this. For example, if you adopt a child who was born— and you adopt a newborn from China, they tell you to teach the child the Chinese. Why? Why? Chinese who moved to America, they taught their children English. Uh, but they believe, you know, there's some— this again, this, uh, whenever I hear the word spiritual, usually I know I'm about to hear something utterly irrational. There's a spiritual bond with, with, uh, with blood. Wow, it's hard to weed that stuff out. Let's go to Rachel in Los Angeles. Thank you for calling, Rachel. Dennis Prager. Hi, Dennis.

Hi. Uh, I agree with you on the macro level about countries and, um, obviously blood, um, Loving someone is much more important than being related to them, but I disagree with you that it has absolutely no meaning at all. I'm adopted, and I think there's quite a difference between choosing to adopt a child and being that adopted child. What's the difference? The difference is that You've made the decision to adopt a child, so you, you want to.

Um, so in the case of a blood child, you made the, made the decision to have intercourse.

Yeah, but in the case, it's still—

it's no, it's no decision. It's no— the child has made no decision whether it's blood or adopted. You didn't decide to come into the world.

Who is, who is being put up for adoption has been given away by its, uh, birth parents. So what? And well, that has an effect on you. Why?

You chose to have it an effect on you. If you didn't know it, you certainly wouldn't have had an effect. You were told that you decided to make it have an effect.

I don't agree.

I mean, well, how do you explain the man who called right before you who was adopted who said it meant nothing to him? Well, that—

I'm speaking for myself.

Oh, I thought you were speaking as a rule. I thought you're speaking— then I can't argue. It's again, it's your—

I can't argue with Yeah. I think that it certainly has no effect on your relationship with your parents in the sense that you love your parents, if you love your parents and they love you, of course. I mean, that's a separate relationship. But to say that finding your birth mother is meaningless—

It is. Why is it meaningful? Is it meaningful to find your sperm donor?

Well, it was very meaningful to me. Why? And it's been meaningful to millions of other people all over the world.

You chose to get— listen, and nearly all of whom are female, that's what I'm saying to you.

Well, I've met, you know, I know men who have found their birth parents.

Well, no, no, I know, of course, and I know women who couldn't care less, but as a rule, overwhelmingly, female adoptees are more likely to care about who their birth parent is.

Well, that may be true, but so what?

Oh, well, it's not a soap opera.

Does that mean that it's meaningless?

I think it is meaningless, but I can't tell you— of course I can't. Look, you may say that it is meaningful to jog 5 miles a day, that without it your life has less meaning.

I can't deny that. Well, I think spending 9 months inside someone's body and then being separated from them is not the same thing as jogging or choosing to watch television.

Okay, I know you feel that, but all of these decisions are subjective. All I'm saying to you is I honor that you feel that, but it is not objectively true that it is meaningful. Meaningful is what we decide with our mind is meaningful, and I don't believe you decided it with your mind. I believe you decided it with your emotions, which is not here or there, but I think we need to know what is mind-based and what is emotion-based. I don't give a hoot who I spent 9 months as a fetus in, and I certainly don't care who was the inseminator. Back in a moment.

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Howdy doody, everybody. Dennis Prager here, and this is the the hour I call the Ultimate Issues Hour each week. You're free to write to me. I love to read your stuff, even if I can't respond. Go to prageradio.com or dennisprager.com to pick your choice. And, uh, if you didn't get through or you just have thoughts you'd like to share in writing, send me emails on anything you hear on my program. And today it's, uh, a deeply beloved subject of mine, the insignificance of blood. And it's a dividing line between the primitive, uh, in the human and the, and the elevated. And, uh, I, I wish I had more time with Rachel, my last caller, who, uh, spoke about the, the, the great meaning that she felt in knowing who she spent 9 months as a fetus in. And I said, it's of no interest to me, and I want to know who loved me and raised me. I couldn't care less, uh, in whose uterus I resided. And I certainly couldn't care less about whose sperm conceived me. These things are of no importance to me whatsoever. But the most important thing between Rachel and me is this: you decide what is meaningful in life. You can't say that it is meaningful who your birth parent is. It's meaningful if you declare it meaningful. But I'm arguing that that declaration is an irrational one. I'm appealing to your mind. Maybe in your gut you think it's important. In my gut, neither— here I don't have a battle— neither my gut nor my mind argue that it's of any significance. But please know that there's no such thing as "it is meaningful." It's meaningful To, uh, to, uh, to believing Christians, it is meaningful to, to, uh, have, uh, have communion. Uh, to a non-Christian is not meaningful. The, the Christian has chosen that. To a Jew, a religious Jew, it is meaningful, uh, to, uh, to abstain from the shellfish and pork products. To the vast majority of humanity, it's not meaningful. We choose what to make meaningful. It's not, it's not there objectively. Who your birth parent is not objectively meaningful. You've decided that it's meaningful, okay, but don't declare it that it is so. You have, for whatever reasons, and they are all emotional, decided that it is significant. It isn't. It isn't. And there really is a male-female divide, although it's not 100%. There are males who think it's important, there are females who think it's unimportant, but but generally speaking, there is that, that divide. I, I want to, uh, want to talk to as many of you as possible. It is so important, the subject, and so, so dear to me. Uh, Brian in Seal Beach, California. Dennis Prager, hi.

Hi, Dennis. Uh, first, uh, piggyback to your last caller. I know this isn't a perfect analogy, but in a family, uh, the most significant relationship that exists is between the husband and the wife, and the last time I checked, they're usually not related by blood. That's right.

That's exactly right. Okay. Not to mention what I mentioned earlier about how many people are bonded with their dogs, and there's very rarely a blood connection.

And although my wife is very bonded with my dog, I'd like to believe that she'd still choose me over the dog. But—

Well, I'll ask her. You should have her call in. I probably should.

But that being the case, my real point is this, and it's a rather serious note. My daughter, who is my wife's biological daughter, my adoptive daughter, we discovered a number of years ago was bipolar. She just turned 18, well actually she's almost going to be 19 years, and she's chosen to leave the house. We don't know where she is. We don't know who these people are that she's staying with and what have you. And I'm incredibly sad over this. It's a very, very hard thing. And there's very little I'm finding outside of my immediate family. There's very little compassion that people have for this. In fact, the comments that I received when I went to the police department to file the missing persons report was, "Well, she's only your adopted daughter." And I was just— I was floored by this because people— we have no other children. And people are saying, "Well, at least you have other biological children." I said, "Well, no, I don't." And I said, we just, we only have the one daughter. And there, I just find that so many people make such a distinction between the blood children and—

That's right, that's right. It's the last primitive, it's really the last primitive belief out there. And that is why it's so important for me to talk about it. And I'd love you to download this hour and play it for such people. All of you, go to prageradio.com and download the hour. Send it, send it. Podcast, do anything you want, but, but get it to people who believe this. There is no, none, zero intellectual, rational, moral, or even theological basis for this. That's why I told you, I, you, the, the, the person who called in to tell me about twins— Jacob and Esau are twins, they hate each other in the womb. What a brilliant way for the Bible to say, folks, its values. Jacob carried on the values. Esau didn't. That's all that mattered. Not birthright and not, not womb. Uh, let's go to, uh, Kara in Colorado. Hello, Kara, Colorado Springs as well. Hi, Kara, Dennis Prager.

Hi Dennis, it's great to talk to you. Thank you. Um, my husband and I had our first child about 5 years ago, and we have had this debate over and over and over again because our initial plan was that we would adopt a second child. And now that I have given birth, that maternal bond is so strong that I fear adopting a child because even though I know you're right about all of the moral and theological issues, I deep down am afraid that emotionally I would not feel the same about the children.

Yeah, I understand that, but it's not going to happen. Let me ask you, do you, um, when you pick up babies, uh, like maybe a niece or a nephew or, or just, uh, friends' babies, do you have any bond that you feel with them?

Yes. Okay, but it's not as strong as the bond with my son.

Well, obviously, because it's not your child. But here's another question. What if you found out that your child was switched by accident at the hospital? Would you love your child less?

Not at this point, no. I mean, we have 5 years of history.

Okay, so wait a minute. At 3— I wanted my own kid back. Yeah, well, yeah, within 24 hours. But once you started bonding, hold on.

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You're listening to The Dennis Prager Show, the Ultimate Issues Hour. The ultimate issue this week is the insignificance of blood and the infinitely greater significance of both values and love. And I want to go back to Kara, who has a biological daughter. Is it Kara? It's Tara! Oh I'm sorry thank you—Tara—that's okay—I have it as a C—we'll punish Eva—is it a daughter?

No it's a son.

Okay so you have biological son he's 5 and you can't imagine that non-biological child would love him much because you would not have carried the child to term is that right? Exactly. Okay question does your husband love your son? He does but wait wait forgive me I just gotta go through my routine. Does he love— so he loves your son, right? He does. But he didn't carry your son for 2 minutes. No. So in other words, carrying has nothing to do with whether or not you love your child.

Uh, I wonder if I love him more sometimes, you know. Maybe it does.

I think that there are a lot of women who think that. I do, I do. I think there are a lot of women who think that. I, I can't, I can't speak for all men. Uh, it's inconceivable to me that any— the mother of my children loves them more than I do. And I don't think anybody would argue that. But that's very interesting. That's something that you would have to have an interesting discussion with. I'd like you to tell your husband that you think that you love your child more than he does. But that would be one of my arguments. And it's certainly an argument for men who might have ambivalence about adoption. You don't carry the child in either case. What do you care? Okay, all right, let me summarize the calls here. Miriam in LA says Jewish law says only a child born to a Jewish mother is Jewish. Yeah, well, that's true for every civilization that if you're born to a certain parent, but also if you're adopted by a parent. But Miriam, you can also become Jewish through conversion. So that's the obvious. That was Judaism's great statement against blood. It's the only people in history that said you can convert to it. Not the only religion, but the only group that ever said that non-blood could become a member of our group. That's how much Judaism elevated this whole discourse, in my opinion. And let's see, okay, now Mike has some— well, he's a foster child, Mike, that's not the same thing, so You, you have longed for stability, not, not for biology. And that's, uh, that, that's another issue. And we're going to have to do this another time as well. And David had apprehensions in Dallas about adopting, and now, now of course they're the love of his life, needless to say. And Jim has a much closer relationship to his, uh, his adoptive mom than to his bio mom. I, I, why would you not? Of course. I mean, unless the, the The adoptive mom did a lousy job. And Art, I thank you as well. Folks, please, please know this: if your mind operates over your emotions, then blood is insignificant. I'm Dennis Prager.

Tomorrow on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. I've been married for 11 years.

We're expecting our third child. And a few years ago, I was more of the mindset where I was resentful of the way my husband was kind of in constant pursuit, and it seemed like that was all he wanted. And it wasn't really all he wanted, but, um, where it seemed like it— he— that was frequently on his mind. And it took a change of heart and change of mind for me to look at much of that was to my advantage in our marriage. I know that he only has eyes for me.

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