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."
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23046603-26040,00.html
Were they beheaded for incest? This is Eurabia after all.
Wrong solution. It does no good to know the parents who are probably dead or scattered to the winds. It WOULD do good to know of siblings.
If this happened to me I’d be pretty freaked out.
Britain: 3% Muslim.
America: 3% Muslim.
--they tumbled to the fact at a family gathering where high school prom pictures were looked over--
Because of this one-in-a-zillion case, Britain wants to write a new law.
Sorry folks, this smells like pure BS to me.
How could they meet and marry and not know that they shared the same birthday and were born in the same town? They both knew they were adopted.
Pure bs.
It seems to me I heard recently of a married couple who did have the same birthday, born same year, but there was no reason to think they were really siblings.
Number two newborn boy name in Britain: Mohamed
Number two newborn boy name in America: Michael
Well it’s a good thing it happend in Britan this time.. There’s a really good chance they’ve never had sex.. :)
That’ll put a knot in the ol’ family tree.
--they tumbled to the fact at a family gathering where high school prom pictures were looked over--"
Can you imagine what you would feel as you came to the realization?
It would be too much to take in all at one time. And with your whole family there while you found out?
And both sides of your family at that (well, "both" and the same)!!
I think you have a fundimental misunderstanding of islams stand on marrying family.
...it was a joke
—last I knew they were still married—(unbelievably)—
At least it did not say “Identical Twins ....”
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