Thursday 6 January 2011

Scary Reality

Two boys born in the same facility on the same day were accidentally switched just like Eun Suh and Shin Ae were in the K - drama Autumn In My Heart. And this was actually a real story taking place in the 1940s Sweden. The event portayed in the Swedish documentary did change the daily routines at the maternity wards all over Sweden.

They were accidentally switched and only three years later the truth was revealed however the sentence or verdict from the trail was being carried out when the boys had reached the tender age of seven. And the decision was that the boys were too be switched and returned ater living for seven years in another family.

I suppose that never supposedly can happen in cases of international adoption, however I'm not sure or convinced of neither.

Surprisingly that is what happened in that town up until 1946, and ever since then there has been a system in identifying mothers and infants to avoid a mixup. What happened in that family was that once the mixup was reveiled on family wanted their real son back while the other family didn't request to take on their other son. They were left with their older son, having to accept that the son was to be raised as the other ones brother in that family.

They were accidentally switched and only three years later the truth was revieled however the sentence or verdict from the trail was being carried out when the boys had reached the tender age of seven. And the decision was that the boys were too be switched and returned after living for seven years in another family.

As the events would turn out only one of the sons had to be switched and one was to be raised in his biological family alongside the other boy and grew up too be just like brothers. Is blood and DNA really more important than love and time spent ? When do you know if your decision was justified or just a selfish act? Was it right or wrong to change that decision several years later.... Is there always such a thing as right or wrong? When do you know when it's right or when its wrong....


© Taste of Kimchi, Elle

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