what if you found out the child you have been raising was the wrong child? that the child was accidently switched at birth....what would you do?

well if the child is old enough to understand what happened u explain to them best an i think it would be right to return them to there rightful parents but maybe some arrangement can be made where u can still have some type of impact on the childs life in a positive way visit them things like that

it is fair that u let the child know who is the parents,but i will still be there for that child physically and mentally.then i will sue

oh to add to this...would you want your own child back? what about the child you have to love and raise?

oh yea, i would try to get my child back and i would love them both the same.

Deep, deep question Pimptress.

There's so much to consider. What happens if the discovery comes when the children are, say, 12 years old, or 15 years old? Children by then are fairly locked into the type of personality that they're going to have. What if the child you raised is the model of good behaviour and excellent grades, and your biological child has had a completely hard life, poor, abused, neglected, constantly in trouble, emotional problems, what have you?

This almost sounds like a great topic for a movie.

Would you be so willing to make that switch? Not to say you wouldn't do all you can to help your biological child, but would you want to just make a 1-for-1 swap based on biology?

definitely! i think a movie by halle berry about 10 years ago where she was a drug mom or so and lost the child dealt with this. will have 2 research....

but good question.

i would definitely keep the chile and continue raising it like my own. it's more than just the sperm hittin the egg. raising the chile, loving and guiding them and watching them grow is where the true feelings lay. i would inform the chile (and hospital, bigological parents, etc.) of the mishap and look 2 find my own as well. but i would find it hard looking at the chile i thought was my own and handing them away 2 their rightul parents. just don't c it happening and neither would the parents of my own true chile. we'd have 2 split the weeks splitting the children or so until we able to let go.

salty

actually mystic...my question came from watching a tv movie about a family with a sickly daughter and do believe they were looking at the parents as a possible donor for something...and the results came back comfirming that the child was not genetically theirs. the girl died soon after and the parents sought out their biologically child and were fighting to gain custody of the child...

now would you have done the same?

even if the child was switched without your knowledge at birth there is gonna be a special bond that you will have, so i think its gonna be hard to give that child up. but when the child is old enough to understand the situation i would let him/her know. and let them decide what they wanna do.

who wouldn't? i think anybody would get a feeling upon finding out that they were somehow getting a second chance.