Seperated at Birth Twins Marry Each Other

[Paladin]

I think so. Incest, to me is psychological.

So...then in the movie Clueless, when Cher (Alicia Silverstone) started making out with her step-brother Josh at the end, they were engaging in incest? GROSS!

 

[txsvicki]

At least the twins will still have each other for the rest of their lives even if not married. It would probably be hard not to feel jealousy when the other ever begins to date others though.

 

[Filly]

They were made for eachother

LMAO, Rino. That was funny.

 

[imthemom]

I read them all years ago in college too!!!! CREEPY!!!! I remember I always felt weird when I was reading them almost obsessive with the story could hardly go to bed at night and got up really early so I could read more.

I just had to chime in, these were my favorite books of all time. I have read all the V.C Andrews books, they all have the theme of incest somewhere in them. Makes me wonder where the author got her ideas. But I couldn't put them down. As for this couple, I feel very sorry for them. They didn't know and are probably going through a very rough time right now.

 

[Amraann]

I just had to chime in, these were my favorite books of all time. I have read all the V.C Andrews books, they all have the theme of incest somewhere in them. Makes me wonder where the author got her ideas. But I couldn't put them down. As for this couple, I feel very sorry for them. They didn't know and are probably going through a very rough time right now.

I have not read VC Andrews since I was a young teen and my mother and aunt read them..
Recently I did venture and OMG I can't believe I ever read that garbage.
I do agree The Flowers in the Attic series was good and even the Heaven series ...
But they must have found a new ghost writer or something...

 

[Rum Tum Tugger]

This is really a tragic story -and in my opinion - could have & should have been avoided.

My 2 cents - With few exceptions, (and I can't think of a good one offhand), "twins" just should not be separated at birth and be adopted by different families. SO totally unfair to the twins!

But - "IF" for some reason, that scenario had to occur - the adopted children should always be told #1 that they are adopted & #2 that they have a twin. It's only fair, just and "their right to know".

IMO - the agency - as well as the adoptive parents played a god-like role in the lives of these twins .. and look at the heartache they caused. How selfish!

My heart breaks for these twins that didn't have the opportunity to grow up together in one loving nurturing home. How different their lives & sibling relationship would have been! And how sad that they had to *finally* find one another in this most avoidable scenario.

Just very very sad!

Rum Tum

 

[AmandaBrown23]

Hey I heard of a story a while back where two people were married and they had trouble conceiving so they went to a specialist who ran tests and they found out they were brother and sister. What happened was their mothers were both were artificially inseminated. They ended up staying together and decided not to have kids.

 

[englishleigh]

I think this is just so heartbreaking for the people involved....

 

[Parmenides]

I have some scepticism about whether this story is true. The person who "revealed" it is a British lord, who has been campaigning for the rights of adopted children to know the details of their blood families. Obviously, this story provides pretty convincing support for his position. But that makes me suspicious about where he got it from and whether he hasn't embellished the details, especially given the lack of precise facts. We don't even know when this is supposed to have happened. It could have been many decades ago, when practices were not nearly as enlightened as today.

 

[LinasK]

I do think this is unfortunately incest because they are direct blood relations, you can't get any closer, and that by breeding can cause all kinds of genetic defects and such. That's why first cousins aren't even allowed to marry. It doesn't matter that they weren't raised together.

I'll bet when they met, they thought, "Wow, noone else understands me like this person!"

 

[Filly]

Hey I heard of a story a while back where two people were married and they had trouble conceiving so they went to a specialist who ran tests and they found out they were brother and sister. What happened was their mothers were both were artificially inseminated. They ended up staying together and decided not to have kids.

Bet that happens more than we'll ever know. Wasn't there some fertility Doctor inseminated a bunch of women with his own sperm and they got a whole town of kids all related?

 

[Cupcake]

As an adopted person, I find this incredibly disturbing.

This situation should never have had the opportunity to develop, and THIS is the absolute reason adoptees should have rights to their birth information once they turn 18.

 

[Truthful Lies]

Actually, they've found that products of incest aren't really that much more prone to defects/mutations as previously thought.

It's only been recently that first cousins haven't been allowed to marry...let me find the article I'm thinking about. In this case, I think things have already gone too far and it would be more traumatic for them to be separated and try to live as siblings. I think they should just stay together and not have biological children...adopt.

Here's a book that says what I'm trying to say a lot better! "Inbreeding, Incest, and the Incest Taboo" by By Arthur P. Wolf, William H. Durham.

This book was written in 2004.
Basically, it's saying that in many parts of the world, inbreeding is preferred...today in Pakistan over 50% of marriages are between first cousins. Genetically, the only risk is that mutant genes that might be recessive if the person bred with someone without the gene is more likely to be prominant if both people have the same copy of the gene.

 

[Gina_M]

I do think this is unfortunately incest because they are direct blood relations, you can't get any closer, and that by breeding can cause all kinds of genetic defects and such. That's why first cousins aren't even allowed to marry. It doesn't matter that they weren't raised together.

That actually depends on the state:

State Laws Regarding Marriages Between First Cousins

Twenty-five states prohibit marriages between first cousins. Six states allow first cousin marriage under certain circumstances, and North Carolina allows first cousin marriage but prohibits double-cousin marriage. States generally recognize marriages of first cousins married in a state where such marriages are legal.

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/cousins.htm

 

[MREG2]

I have not read VC Andrews since I was a young teen and my mother and aunt read them..
Recently I did venture and OMG I can't believe I ever read that garbage.
I do agree The Flowers in the Attic series was good and even the Heaven series ...
But they must have found a new ghost writer or something...[/QUOTE]


Yes, both series were good. I have them all. The Landry series was ok too.

After VC Andrews died they did "try" to continue writing books but I don't think they were all that good.

 

[ttrachel04]

Does anyone remember the brother-sister couple from Germany? They met (I believe knowing that they were brother and sister), fell in love and had 4 kids together.

 

[deanws]

those were good books, disturbing, but I read them all.

I did too! LOL!:crazy:

 

[Blondieskatz]

It actually kind of makes you wonder if this has happened elsewhere but the people involved don't realize it.

Yes, I have read stories in the past where this has happened.

I wonder how they found out they were twins? Gosh, it really is a small world, afterall.

 

[dee10134]

As an adopted person, I find this incredibly disturbing.

This situation should never have had the opportunity to develop, and THIS is the absolute reason adoptees should have rights to their birth information once they turn 18.

I agree 100%. My husband is adopted as well and feels that he deserves the right to the truth, not the lies his A-family spent so many years creating.

I don't know what I'd do if I found out we were somehow related. We don't really plan on having children of our own (I have a daughter from a prior relationship), so I don't know if we'd just say f-it and stay together or what.

That's a really tough call!

 

[southcitymom]

What angelmom said! I think the damage from incest is from having the imbalance in the family, not from the genetic aspect.

What hipmamajen and angel said. I hope these two can find peace for themselves with all this. It would be a very odd circumstance to find yourself in.