You're severely underestimating the affects on a kid when told who their father really is, whether as a young child or a teenager. Obviously not all kids will care but there's some deep psychological elements presented in your father being a rapist.

Of course there will be some psychological problems for most kids, but I don't think that means they will become insane or criminal.

is alcoholism a disease... can it be inherited... i believe so on both.. so i dont' see how the action of rape or rape itself woudlnt' be the same.

This is interesting...

Rape Does Not Justify Abortion

just one persons opinion still doesn't change my view... lets get down to the core, religious or not, the core of a human being is genetics... everything we do is in some way shape or form to progress good genes versus bad genes...

if rape is a characteristic of a person... and you are raped and become pregnant that baby has the possiblity to take on this characteristic... so why would you want that chacteristic to continue on in society.. i sure don't with this being said if everyone follows this view, eventually rape will be non existant.

this same thing goes for lot of other things... any human characteristic...

they say in the futur everyone will have black hair almond shaped eyes and brown in color and a mildly tanned skin... once all the races mesh... thats basically what we will look like... dominating genes will continue to thrive through generations.

Unless you give me an medical article that explicitly states that rape is inherited, then I refuse to believe anything you say about it dealing with genetics.

ALCOHOLISM is a NOUN. It's SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN HAVE. It's an addiction. Addictions have been proven to pass through generations. Crack baby, anyone?

Is RAPISM a word? NO. (Even on spellchecker it says its not a word).

Rape is a verb. An act. To do something. Sure, yea yea, rape is a noun too. But only used in a certain manner. "The criminal was convicted of rape." Again, a noun that defines that the person raped someone. A noun describing a verb. You're arguement just doesn't make sense. Sure, the child might grow up knowing that their mother was raped, but what child is going to live through life and learn from his mother to rape people based on their childhood? Sure, it can cause damages mentally, but to say that the child will grow up to be a rapist and put other people in the position that they grew up in would just be ridiculous.

drinking is an act and something you do and once addicted becomes alcoholism so someone that rapes over and over thats an act and somethign you become addicted to over and over... i really just don't see your guys points...

It's a mental addiction, nonetheless (rape). And I really think that as long as the child of the alcoholic doesn't start drinking, I doubt he/she will develop alcoholism. Now lets say that it increases their chances of forming an addiction if they drink. If the child grows up around its mother knowing she was raped. If it's a girl, does that mean she's perfectly fine and incapable of rape? I really don't know, because I've never heard of a man being raped by a woman and needing therapy. And if it's a boy, does that mean he will have tendencies toward forcefully raping girls? I think rapists have more than one problem that causes them to act as they do. To name a few that seem probable, a lack of a conscience, violence, and strong sexual urges. If you're going to have an abortion if you were raped, it shouldn't be because you think your child could be a rapist.

i agree with you, up until the last sentence... cause this is really the only time that i believe abortion is okay. hence why i am pro choice.

Well, I can sympathize with not wanting to have a baby and wondering if the baby might have problems because its father might have had severe mental problems, but I really can't see a pregnant rape victim wanting an abortion because her son, if it's a boy, may become a rapist.