Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh nooooooooooooooooo

[4GS]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles /news/news.html?in_article_id=507588&in_page_i d=1770&ct=5

[China Doll]

I think that's really sad.

Imagine meeting the love of your life and then discovering that. I've a lot of sympathy for them.

[darlingnc]

hi, can someone tell me what the link says, i cant see it at work thank u

[meglet]

I really hope The Sun or suchlike don't hunt them down and splash their faces on the front page.

[China Doll]

It was twins who were seperated and adopted at birth who married having no knowledge that they were related. Very sad.

[natalie_1982]

For darlingnc:
Twins separated at birth have married each other without realising they were brother and sister, it has been revealed.

The British couple have now been granted an annulment after a special High Court hearing. Judges ruled the marriage had never validly existed.


Full details of how the brother and sister fell in love and married have been kept secret, along with their identities.

But the Evening Standard has learned that they were separated soon after birth.

Each was then adopted by different families but neither was told they had a twin.

The couple had no idea they were blood relatives until after their wedding.


The case was heard recently in the High Court's Family Division.

Experts warn that it highlights the need for the rights of children to know the identity of their parents to be strengthened.


Professor Lord Alton, who uncovered the case, said new reforms drawn up by ministers threatened to undermine existing rights.

The changes, now being debated in the House of Lords, would also relax rules on who can have fertility treatment.


Critics say they will weaken further the link between children and their biological parents - and even effectively end the need for fathers.


Lord Alton said: "The right for children to know the identity of their biological parents is a human right.

"There will be more cases like this if children are not given access to the truth. The needs of the child must always be paramount."

The Government has been facing fierce opposition over sweeping changes to fertility laws in the Human Embryology and Tissues Bill.


Under the proposed law, fertility clinics will not be able to bar single women and same sex couples from treatment.

Instead,

[4GS]

I really hope they didn't have children, can you imagine any child living with that stigma?

[natalie_1982]

Ministers have already been forced to rewrite the bill following objections by peers to the original wording.

It had stated that children born through fertility treatment needed a "social network", not a father and mother.


The Lords will vote on the revised bill on Tuesday.


Those pushing for the role of fathers to be recognised as vital include Baroness Ruth Deech, a former head of the Government's fertility watchdog, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).


However fertility treatment pioneer Lord Winston said that the call for a such a "father clause" would discriminate against career women.


He said: "This is prejudiced against women who have paid their taxes, been well educated and delayed motherhood because they are working hard.

"If they are left without a partner and still want a baby [with a donor], this would prejudice their treatment and ask doctors to make a value judgment about them."


Lawyer Natalie Gamble, an expert on fertility regulations, said: "Equality rules mean clinics have to give treatment to single women and same sex couples anyway. The Government doesn't need to enshrine this in new laws."

Annulments are usually heard at county court, but can go to the High Court if cases are particularly complex.

Marriages can be annulled if one of the parties was under 16 at the time of the wedding, if it was a bigamous union, or if the couple are closely related.


The latest figures, for 2005, show 251 marriages were annulled that year.

There is no breakdown of how many cases fell into each category.

[jedimistress]

Stigma??? I don't think so. What a sad and unusual story. What are the chances?

[darlingnc]

thanks for that natalie and china. how shattering must that be to these people

[China Doll]

Exactly.... titilation for some no doubt but that poor couple... Devastating.

(See William, I do have a heart!)

[spaced]

A newspaper has revelead who the twins are...I cant believe it!!!!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb /6/6b/Twins_Poster.jpg/200px-Twins_Poster.jpg

[Lonnie]

Its unfortunate, of course, but it does happen from time to time.

It happened some years ago, a waiter here in England, (he was Spanish), met a girl, and they became lovers, only to discover further down the line, that they were actually brother and sister, seperated at birth.

[cruella]

years ago, when my Mum was alive, she used to comment on the way society was changing.
So many children to different parents and actually said that one day "Brothers and Sisters would be meeting at clubs, marrying and not realising they were related. How true!

[Louisa 69]

It's quite a scary thought cruella.

I feel for them, what must they be feeling their thoughts must be all over the place. So sad.

[kwicky]

How did they know?

Same birthdate, both had adopted parents, must have started the ball rolling?

[jno]

this happens sometimes. You're going to have such a lot in common with a sibling genetically, especially a twin, that you may well think he/she is the one. Normally with kids growing up together the incest taboo kicks in - that's not a law, just the fact of life that when you grow up in each other's pockets you're too close to fancy each other. But that doesn't happen in adoption cases like this.

But if it happened to me, I'd just shut up about it. Why on earth would you go knocking on the police station door to say 'Please sir, I seem to have committed incest?' If they're in love, they should just stick together and keep their mouths shut. Consenting adults should be free to do what they please (though there might be something to be said, genetically, for not having children). The law has no business in people's bedrooms where there's no coercion involved.

[Louisa 69]

ye but jno could you really carry on being intimate with someone you knew was your brother \ sister ? I think that alone would freak me out.