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British twins separated at birth got married without realizing they were relatedPublished: Friday, January 11, 2008 | 12:25 PM ETCanadian Press: Thomas Wagner, THE ASSOCIATED PRESSLONDON - Twins who were separated at birth got married without realizing they were brother and sister, a legislator told the Britain's House of Lords.A court annulled the British couple's union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord David Alton said.The legislator provided few other details about the case when he mentioned it during a five-hour debate about a bill that would change regulations about human embryology. He said he had been told about the unusual case by a judge, who he did not name."I was recently involved in a conversation with a High Court judge who was telling me of a case he had dealt with," Alton said during the Dec. 10 debate. "It involved the normal birth of twins who were separated at birth and adopted by separate parents."They were never told that they were twins. 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."The case was first reported Friday in London's Evening Standard.The High Court's Family Division declined to discuss or confirm Alton's account about the twins.Alton, an independent legislator who works at Liverpool's John Moores University, said in a telephone interview Friday that the twins' inadvertent marriage raises the wider issue of the importance of strengthening the rights of children to know the identities of their biological parents, including kids who were born through in vitro fertilization.Under British law, only a mother has to be named on a birth certificate. Such certificates also are not required to identify births that result from IVF or to identify the sperm donor.In addition, British law does not require parents to ever tell children that they were the result of donated sperm.Alton believes this should be changed."Everyone has a right to knowledge about their lineage, genealogy and identity. And if they don't, then it will lead to cases of incest," he said.Alton said he favours an amendment to the Human Fertility and Embryology bill - which is still being debated in the House of Lords - that would require birth certificates of children born from donated sperm to say that and to identify the genetic father.Referring to the twins' case, he said: "If you start trying to conceal someone's identity, sooner or later the truth will come out. And if you don't know you are biologically related to someone, you may become attracted to them and tragedies like this may occur."
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I think it refers to the intense bond twins have. You know how you hear about twins adopted by different families who have eerily similar lives? - that kind of thing.
No shit.
If I bumped into a female version of myself at the clurb, I prolly throw up.
whaa?
if the twins are different sexes, then they cannot be identical.
ummmm, yeah, that makes sense
remember a friend in college relating stories of a girl he used to mess around with off and on and then discovering they were cousins....
and of course i asked: Did you keep at it?
Answer: Of course.
Maybe they're gay.
huh?
that's what sabadabadoo was getting at.
wha?, who? where?
he thinks you are responding to my post. where, in his private trannie garden, thinking a female version of me is foul shows a complete lack of intelligence.
"got married without realizing they were brother and sister"
Anyway, they obviously did not look enough alike to raise any red flags. But even then - would your first thought be - "I must be related to this person"?
That's all I'm tryin to say. My first thought would be look at the goddamned nose on that bitch!
right.
well I was actually saying that sleeping with one's brother or sister is "foul."
apparently Jonny finds this remark "unintelligent."
I thought we determined that they WEREN'T gay.
What are you trying to say about the Jews???
I tried to find that old Matisyahu thread but it's gone.
which I didn't.
OBVIOUSLY they didn't suspect they were related.
but it's nonetheless FOUL as hell. imagine when they found out. "Old Boy" shit.