Twins separated at birth marry each other

Made me think of a funny story.... I took my husband to meet my Grampa in MS. When my husband went to go lay down to take a nap, my Grampa and I went out to sit a spell on the porch swing and talk. The first question my Grampa asked was "What is he". I responded "He's a man Grampa". To which he replied "I know but where was he born?". "SanDiego" I replied. Now Grampa was getting upset with me. He asked "Where were his folks born?". To which I replied "The Phillipines". Then Grampa said "Well, I guess you really wanted to make sure he weren't related didn't ya?"

Well, my son came from a donor father, and my husband (at the time) was listed on the birth certificate. Our donor did NOT want any knowledge of the baby. In fact, most donors do not want to know the outcome of their children. I think that requring the name on the birth certificate would make it harder for women to find a sperm donor when needed, since most of the donors want to be kept private. I remember in the "olden days" a blood test was required before you married someone, maybe we could go back to that so that we know we are not married to someone we are related to. Just my 2 cents...

it is a complicated issue and require a long debate on itwith ethics and morality involved in it.

This is a tragic incident.A disastrous controvesial effect of IVF or adoption that authorities should have anticipated.While an isolated cases such as this is happening laws and regulations should be passed and approved while the is not ye too late.Science had proven that once couple produced offspring with biologically related partners, congenital defects of future generation is inevitable. Speaking of birth certificates, I don't think hospitals would only have the record of donors but not written in the chuld's birth certificate.So tracking the IVF 's child lineages through birth records is unreliable, but medical records will.Unless, the biological Father or Mother is written in birth certificates of these children that resolves the issue so that future incidences similar to this married twins is prevented. I am sure it is traumatic for these twins knowing the truth of their lineage that eventually led to the aqnnulment of their marriage.And for that, I would have to put the blame to their parents who had kept the truth from them.I wouldn't be hiding the truth, if I was the parents of these children.This really gave me a good insight that when my adopted son would like to know the truth at the age of reason I would like to tell him the truth. He will understand and I am pretty sure he would love me more ten times than before for telling him the truth! As for the twins, only time can heal their deep pain for this.Their parents should support them so they could move on with life!Not even the length of marriage or numbers of children can hide the pain of truth.Once discovered about the situation, life would never same again.Only time can tell and their decision what matters most.But if it happened to me, I will choose the truth to be freed from burden!!!

I had a distant family member marry his cousin without knowing before hand that she was his cousin. Though they did find out afterward they still had healthy children together. Though that is not as close blood wise as siblings or twins at that. I think that since they did not grow up together they didn't develop the sibling relationship and if they want to stay together they should. As for children they could see if it okay to do so or adopt or do sperm donation. As for listing the donor as a father I think that if I was the man raising the child I would want my name as the father especially if we are going to have more children. I think they need to be careful how they hand out the donation and try to have more distance in when and where they give it out so that the children would be farther away from each other and not be in the same age range. Then the likelihood of them hooking up would be less.

maybe this kind of issue may be a real taboo for some but i think for the unending and unexplanable change nowadays which happens to our world this may really hapeen to certain parts of the world or let us say has had happened already or accepted in other places.. in the social norms of the religion "catholic" it may be called a sin because marraying your own bloodline will desecrate the values of christianity.

Oh I agree with you, because when it comes down to life I have found out recently just how small the world is, a friend once told me the meaning of "the six degrees of seperation" and when I look at a few things that have happened in my life agree, and anyway I think everyone has the natural right to know og their genes ...

I don't think that it should neccesarily be on the birth certificate, but there should be some sort of notation on there, indicating that the child has a sperm donor, or was born through ivf, or adopted etc. Could you imagine parenting a child and having no idea what kind of medical history their birth parents had? If allergies to peanuts ran in my kids family, i'd want to know. I think there could be a notation of some sort, and another document with the birth parents info. It does bring up a good point, because with sperm donors, you could potentially marry a sibling, cousin (or even in some strange cases) a parent.. and then have a child with him or her.. that would be quite scary to think about the ramifications of that! I also think that blood tests should be required before you marry, but as you know, many people don't wait until they say "I do" to have intimate relations with one another. It's not something our parents ever had to worry about, but it's def. something that our children may have to!