Posted on 01/14/2008 12:25:48 PM PST by Renfield
London - A pair of twins in Britain who were separated at birth and adopted by different families married each other without realizing they were brother and sister and have now had their union annulled by a court, it was revealed Friday. The extraordinary case, brought to public attention by David Alton, a liberal member of Britain's House of Lords, prompted calls Friday for legislation enshrining a child's right to know who her or his biological parents are.
The twins, whose marriage was recently annulled by a High Court judge because "it never validly existed," had felt an "inevitable attraction" to each other, Lord Alton said Friday.
Details of the identities of the twins involved have been kept secret, but Lord Alton said the pair did not realize they were related until after their marriage.
"They were never told that they were twins," Alton told the House of Lords. "They met later in life and felt an inevitable attraction, and the judge had to deal with the consequences of the marriage that they entered into and all the issues of their separation."
According to Alton, the case raises the wider issue of the importance of strengthening the rights of children to know the identities of their biological parents.
"If you start trying to conceal someone's identity, sooner or later the truth will out," he said.
"The right for children to know the identity of their parents is a human right," said Alton.
Pam Hodgkins, of the charity Adults Affected by Adoption, said there had been previous cases of separated siblings being attracted to each other.
"We have a resistance, a very strong incest taboo where we are aware that someone is a biological relative," she said. "But when we are unaware of that relationship, we are naturally drawn to people who are quite similar to ourselves."
right-o!
Andy Stewart (Scottish folksinger) wrote a song of such a situation back in the 80s... sad.
I would bet 90% of the Muslims in America are Black Muslims and that they are not serious practitioners of the faith, just doing it for racial reasons.
If they shared a father it would be ok mostly. Kind of like cousins. If they shared a mother it could be very bad.
On the other hand the IRA has killed hundreds of innocent English people.
>>>I mean, it does not mention “identical,” but it doesn’t deny it either.<<<
Identical twins (created from the same embryo) are of the same sex. Fraternal twins (created from different embryos) can be the same or of a different sex, with physical characteristics and appearances that can be quite different.
I get a kick out of twins born on different days. There was a story I read about a couple who had twins...the first twin was born Dec. 31, 1999 around 11:58pm and the other was born at 12:04am, just 6 minutes later, January 1, 2000.
Please do not believe that adopted children are always told their real birthdays. Their real birthdays are changed to make it more difficult to find their birth parents. This is to protect the birth mother, who supposedly wants to get rid of the baby and never be contacted, and to protect the adoptive parents, who want no contact or connection with the birth mother.
Remember that the baby has no rights, only the adoptive parents do.
Estimates of the Muslims in the U.S. vary from 1.1 to 6.7 million. That’s at most 2.2% of the population. The CIA fact book puts it at 1%.
This story appears to be an urban legend:
http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2008/01/lord-altons-tall-story.html
http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2008/01/myth-makers.html
http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2008/01/case-closed.html
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