Gag

Yuck.

Twins separated at birth and adopted by separate parents later married each other without realising they were brother and sister.

The siblings were recently granted an annulment in the high court's family division.

The judge ruled that the marriage had never validly existed. Marriages can be annulled if one of the parties was under 16 at the time, if it is a bigamous union, or if the couple are closely related.

The identities of the British pair and the details of the relationship have been kept secret, but it is known that they were separated soon after birth and were never told they were twins. They did not discover they were blood relatives until after the wedding.{...}

On a somewhat related note, I've always thought there was a decent sci-fi book/movie to be written about the future consequences of sperm/egg donation. As in, epidemiologists notice there's a uptake in hemophilia cases/exceedingly stupid children, etc. Once they figure it out, they try to take their case to the public, advocating DNA tests before people get married, to try and stop this sort of thing from going any further and start being murdered/chased around by big bad guys hired by multinational sperm banks/infertility clinics, who, of course, want to stop them.

If anyone wants to run with it, go to town. I'm, obviously, not going to write it. But I would like, at the very least, a thank you in the "Author's Note" section.

{ht: Steve-O)

Posted by Kathy at January 11, 2008 01:35 PM | TrackBack