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Occasionally you hear stories about babies that were accidentally mixed-up at birth. Generally parents opt to keep whatever child they've grown to know and love as their own -- even though, biologically at least, the child isn't theirs. However in a recent case, two families have decided to do just the opposite.
This situation involves two four-year-olds -- one Turkish, and one Saudi. While Mohammed al-Monjem, biological father of the Saudi child, had no idea that the boy he was raising was, in fact, Turkish. It was only when the Turkish father insisted that the child he lived with, Yacoub, looked far too Saudi to be his real son, that the mistake was finally revealed.
Saudi officials have vowed that they'll find whoever was responsible, so this "doesn't happen again," but I'm more worried about these two kids. How can a four-year-old understand why they're moving to another country, to live with another family -- without simply feeling rejected? I can understand how confused and angry these families must feel, robbed of raising their biological child -- but that mistake is done with now. Why punish the children for it?
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11-09-2007 @ 11:45AM
Caelligh said...I'm not sure, but it sounds like the indignation of the fathers over the mix-up is rooted in racism, which is very sad for the children. I'm pretty sure both families live in Saudi Arabia and one is just ethnically Turkish, though. I don't think the boys are being shipped off to different countries.
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11-09-2007 @ 1:06PM
jenny said...This makes my stomach hurt just thinking about it.
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11-09-2007 @ 1:00PM
Cooper said...I have a three year old and I couldn't imagine "giving" him back or "trading" him in.
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11-09-2007 @ 1:20PM
queenoqueens said...That is really horrific. I wonder what impact this will have on the kids' minds and lifes.
Although perhaps the child is better off not living with the father who can't stand him because he is a different race?
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