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Posted on 03.05.10 to Personal by JoanI was having a discussion with my challenge producer, Keir, this morning about an episode of Grey’s Anatomy (or was it Private Practice) I watched sometime ago. (We were caught in the massive jam along ECP and were in traffic for an hour!)
It was about how the hospital messed up the tagging of babies and these two pairs of parents went home with the wrong ones — each others’.
Time passed and somehow the hospital found out about the mistake. So they called up both parents to tell them that they had the wrong babies and they had to bring their babies in to exchange for the biologically correct one.
I always wondered, and till today I can’t come up with the right answer, what I would do if that were me.
If someone called me today to say that Clare isn’t my biological child and I had to exchange her for my flesh and blood, would I? Ideally, I would keep both children, but it seems almost impossible to pick just one — the child I have taken care of and love unconditionally or my flesh and blood, whom I will also love unconditionally in time?
What would you do?
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I would exchange because denying a parent of his/her own flesh & blood would be cruel. On the other hand, because you raised the little one, you know you’ll always be in her heart. And in a way, you’ll always have her.
Just my view!
Bing added these pithy words on
Mar 05 10 at
1:07 PM
Oh I saw that Private Practice episode. Man, I also dunno what I would do :(
Adele added these pithy words on
Mar 05 10 at
4:48 PM
Pretty difficult to say, cos it all depends on who/what situation the other child (your biological one) is in – ie location on the globe, social situation etc..
I would probably give my child a choice, if my child had reached an age where he’s aware of what’s going on (ie not a few mth old baby)
And however plausible/implausible, stay in close contact with the other parents, so that u know how the other child (your biological one, or the one u had raised and loved) is doing thru life too.
areya added these pithy words on
Mar 05 10 at
6:06 PM
