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You discover your wonderful one-year-old child is, because of a mixup at the hospital, not yours. Would you want to exchange the child?

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m2ponce | 1 year, 10 months ago
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That is a very interesting question which makes it rather difficult to answer. My wife and I recently had our second child, a lovable girl (our firstborn is a boy) and she just turned 3 months old last week. Within 3 months, my wife and I are so attached to our child since we decided she will be our last child. We enjoy every minute with her and we look forward to the coming months and years when she grows up. If by any chance there is a mix up in the hospital that we were given the "wrong" child and another couple got our child, it would be difficult to decide what to do. Even with proof of blood samples and a confession by hospital staff on the their error, I would still find it too difficult to give up our child and get our real child. It has only been 3 months and if its a one year old child, it would be 3 times as hard to give up. Not that I do not want to get our real child and give the right child to their parents but the situation is easier said than done. I would definitely seek absolute proof that the child is not ours and the other child is indeed ours. It is painful to let go of the child you loved for 1 whole year but you have to do what is right. This thing happened for a reason that even if it is too painful, it is very obvious what is the right thing to do, for both the child's sake. Hopefully when we get our right child, we can connect with her as much as we did with our previous child that we took home.

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goatead1 | 1 year, 10 months ago
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It depends on how solid of the information was.

Here is a scenario where I would.

The parents of another one year old baby seek me out specifically with blood work to say that I have there kid and they have mine. Then the doctor at the Hospital admits the possibility of this kind of mistake, and finally they ask if we could switch children because of the un deniable proof. I would probably go through with it but still feel un easy.

Pretty much any other situation i would learn to live with it.

Kinda like Dale Gribble's son on King of the Hill, He has to know it is not his but still he loves him just the same. Actually Dale think aliens impregnated his wife and gave him the kid, still his opinion on Joseph is the same.

I would take the Dale Gribble approach. Even if the kid is possibly not mine, proving it beyond the shadow of a doubt would be costly and hard to do, I would probably just not look into it and tell myself the child was mine.

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sunshine09 | 1 year, 10 months ago
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Without a doubt !!! I would be wanting to raise my own child and not someone's child. What an exciting , yet surprising moment. I would be in awwed that it even happened much less having someone actually tell me the truth. It may be hard giving up the one you have been raising, but I would still want my own baby back.

What a wonderful feeling knowing you have the right child !!
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