[frugalfarmwife]

It is an interesting concept, but I also know that my husband purposely made choices NOT to be like his father to prevent mistakes he saw, but, sometimes his dad really sneaks in, lol.

As for father/daughter if the father is absent either physically or emotionally it can really effect later in life relationships, trust me I learned the hard way on that one!

And on the adopted children turning out like their real parents, yes, I firmly believe a LOT of personality is genetic, I watched a friend raise 3 adopted children and they sadly turned out a LOT like their genetic parents, it was a disaster and so sad, they were given such a good loving environment and turned on it.

Take it even farther, I raise horses and the sires are NOT in contact with their foals, yet I see so many of the same personality traits and actions in these foals as they grow, we even joke that we can tell the Leo babies because they're the grumpy/opinionated ones, lol.

kj