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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 less mentally taxing to even consider their circumstances as a human being. Even if it’s real, it’s fake until I meet them in person.

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Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
An incest baby would be much more likely to be put up for adoption though.

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- Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    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
    
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Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I would think the percentage of children given up for adoption is higher in stigmatized circumstances, one of which would be incest.

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Entropy_Pyre@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’d imagine there might be just a bit of under-reporting. People probably try to hide it.

I live near some polygamist colonies where they pretty… nested. And they definitely don’t talk to the government about it.

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- tottle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  I live near some polygamist colonies where they are pretty… nested. And they definitely don’t talk to the government about it.
  
  Can you elaborate?
  
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