I found an older half sister via one of these tests. The demotion from oldest to second oldest has been a bitter pill, but having a new older sister is pretty neat!
But you’re still the oldest male! And what a great older sister you gained. :)
Consumer DNA tests revealing misattributed parentage
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Re: Consumer DNA tests revealing misattributed parentage
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> Ideally [...] But tragically, This is of course a value judgement. I'm sure many adoptees would disagree with your assessment that their situation is tragic.
> This is of course a value judgement. It's a biological and common sense judgment. > I'm sure many adoptees would disagree with your assessment that their situation is tragic. Ideally ( all things being equal ), adoptees would want to be with their "ideal" biological parents. Of course if the biological parents are dead, abusive or too poor to provide for them ( tragic ), then adoption is better than nothing. But I…
Appealing to common sense doesn't make your argument more appealing.
I mean, I could similarly assume the ideal to be mass incubation in artificial wombs, followed by randomly selected adoption.