My goodness, I have so few details yet so many questions! Apparently, two boys who were switched at birth will be switched back and go live with their biological parents.
It looks like the two boys, now 4 years old, were born in the same Saudi hospital, and switched at some point before they were taken home. Here’s the weird thing: one of the families is Turkish.
Sure, all families have their own thing going on, but this seems even more extreme than when babies of two Idaho families are switched at birth or something. For four years, these two kids have been raised in families who speak different languages and are of different cultures. Not that a 4-year-old can’t learn another language, but sheesh. There you are, loving your mom and dad and then someone tells you there’s a new mom and dad. Tragic. And not only are the people different, but the language, culture, etc. is too.
The Saudi dad is pissed and wants to sue. He had no idea his boy Ali was biologically the child of another family. But the Turkish father has claimed for a while (not sure how long) that "light-skinned" Yacoub wasn’t his. Saudi officials who didn’t believe him went ahead with DNA tests and, well, that was that. Apparently Yacoub looks just like his Saudi bio-dad.
Weird. Sad. Damn.
