Real Families: Maternal Struggles and Sibling Harmony

[@JRenee141]

I wonder how many families have been torn apart by this. I'd imagine a male chimera would get a similar dna result with their own children? The father believing the kid is theirs but then DNA says otherwise so they leave. The mother swearing on her life she was 100% faithful but having DNA evidence that says otherwise... that no one can really explain. I also think it's wild that (kind of assuming here) most chimeras die never realizing what that are.

[@buglove515]

That is a very very very real possibility!

[@peachygal4153]

They would still show up as uncle.

[@geekemedia]

@@peachygal4153 not unless they are testing for that

[@ifso9539]

Hopefully the male chimera isn't like the guy in the video , because he would say it wasn't his baby.

[@lisatrautwein1924]

Oh my gosh 😮 I couldn't imagine

[@veramatthews1364]

I cannot believe such a decision to take her “ born of her body “ children away from her ! How barbaric of that court . Even with the attending physicians testimony of delivering them from her ! Shocking . Thank goodness for the more we’ll off lady getting the mystery cleared up . Great story .

[@sarahstauffer4874]

There is no justice in the justice system. It better protects the offenders because you can know something has taken place, but if you cannot prove it, you have no case. Even if you do have good evidence, justice isn't guaranteed..

[@honeybunch5765]

That poor mamma, the stress she must have endured, luckily the judge had her new born tested, imagine if she wasn't pregnant. This is stuff nightmares are made of.

[@susanbuss4286]

@@sarahstauffer4874 Z

[@dianaholley4464]

Alot of children have been returned to their real parents thanks to DNA. It's a shame what happened to these women but at all DNAs done it has helped thousands of people especially children who have been involved in child trafficking.

[@ifso9539]

what r you guys talking about. Those two are the most irresponsible parents in the world.

[@mildrednsubuga8062]

I can't stop thinking of paternity tests that have come back negative because the father had an ingrown twin. So sad 😔

[@ashleebubbles7055]

Makes me question all those Maury "You are NOT the father" episodes. Anything is possible!

[@viyannalangager4039]

Right

[@daphneraven6745]

Chimeras can be male or female.

[@clarindabegaso8736]

Agree

[@patriciaschuster1371]

I never trusted Maury anyhow. Showmanship of a not too bright person.

[@maggielauser2661]

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[@lc4life369]

I'm glad they make documentaries on this and I hope it helps people in the future. That's insane that they would take kids away from the mother who has been raising them their entire life without another woman coming forward and saying she had her kids stolen or anything at all. Sinse when does having different DNA mean you can't parent a child. So many step parents and adopted parents raise children.

[@amylarson3958]

I ask again: WHY didn't the father those children himself until the matter was settled? So, he can make them, but he can't take care of them? Really? That makes me even madder

[@AwfulDog1]

The older lady has a much better understanding of chimerism than the documentary writers… they made several errors. Also why not sample the placenta… obviously.

[@liz7064]

To everyone questioning why Lydia had a 0% DNA match with her children when it was her twin: she had a 0% match as being their mother. Lydia said the doctors were accusing her of the kids being her sisters. There wasn’t a 0% match of her DNA. There was likely approximately a 25%, and the investigators could see she was somewhat related to them, which is why they accused them of being her sister’s. the documentary was referring to there being a 0% match of her being the mother

[@alliep7288]

The editors made it that way to look more dramatic they should have said she said 25% of there dna and was related more like an aunt NOT 0% cus it sounds better to say 0% percent mother.

[@onewotldgovernmentonlywhen9044]

Her fraternal twin

[@MegaBpop]

I wish the welfare dept would have expressed an apology to the mother. Yes, I know they were only following the rules, but a simple apology sometimes feels better. I am sorry this happened to Jaime and caused so much pain.

[@yugimutou9762]

She really should sue.

[@lindudes14]

Why on earth would you make a perfect good documentary only to then drown it out with music??? SMH

[@QueerCripple]

Glad I'm not the only one... I was straining to hear the voices while the music was torturing my ear drums.

[@melissas.2905]

The music was to loud. In some places it drowns out the talking.

[@daniellewoodley3]

As someone with APD, I had to use subtitles and turn volume almost completely off to actually watch 😬

[@laurasnider8263]

I despise the music on this damn things

[@susanwilliams7062]

I was so angry about that loud music drowning out the explanation! I completely forgot about closed captions. I’m going to turn them on and listen to the ending again.

[@vernelledouglas1801]

So sad Ms. Lydia and her family had to go through that. More education on chimerism has to be made known and thorough investigation done to ensure that justice is served in every case.

[@daphneraven6745]

Vernelle Douglas: Science has known about it for a very long time; i guess people forget the anomalous stuff a little too easily.

[@BobbieXxoo]

It's probably more common than we think. People just don't have the need for DNA testing usually or needing a kidney etc.

[@ogcatlady]

Sickening how economic and educational privilege makes such a difference on how these cases were carried out.

[@extracelestial1027]

absolutely. it’s sickening but im glad it worked out.

[@lc4life369]

The teacher privilage is insane to me as many teachers have been known to break laws and be very dishonest people. They shouldnt be treated any differently than anyone else.

[@cjjohnson2374]

Im in total agreement, the way these two women were represented was completely different..

[@lc4life369]

@Janitor Queen You don't even need to be white to have privilege like that. You just need money. And you don't need a video like this to tell you that. Just look how someone can kill someone and get out of jail. They only get out because they have money. Also I do believe there is such thing as teacher privilege but not meant the same way you mean privilege. It just means people believe teachers more than they would other citizens. Same with nurses, and other people with jobs like that. You may not have experienced it but doesn't mean it's not true.

[@mmarsh2937]

It’s NOT privilege. These two women were at different life stages. One had adult children and was looking for kidney match. Other had small children and needed monetary support. This video is old - it would not happen nowadays because there is just so more scientifically known.

[@lorabetht9206]

How horrifying for the mother- wondering if her babies would be ripped away from their home 🥺

[@Kuwaitisnot_adeployment]

Right

[@JaimeMesChiens]

I don’t know if many are aware, but Lydia Kay Fairchild’s case was in 2002. She is forty-five years old now

[@marcellinejackson3826]

And why is that important?

[@maureenspano6988]

@@marcellinejackson3826 Because DNA test keep getting better.

[@daphneraven6745]

Liberty H.: r u wondering if more recent testing, or testing for a different genetic subset would detect the genetic commonality?

[@susanwilliams7062]

I’d like to know whether their 4th child’s DNA is the same as its older siblings, and whether chimera is easier to detect in 2021.

[@christinamann3640]

I’ve heard of this, I think it was a model who was interviewed on a talk show about being her own twin. She had the line in her pigment on her stomach, and a medical history of autoimmune difficulties from the two genetic sets of tissues reacting to each other as foreign invaders.

[@megsgriffin]

I saw that as well… but this is a step deeper where it’s effecting your birthing process and kids

[@Lola_Nico]

Yeah I saw that too! So wildly fascinating!

[@brokenchurchgirl1437]

It was Megyn Kelly's talk show on NBC. I saw it too

[@Ouchiness]

@@megsgriffin its not a ‘step deeper’ necessarily, the same things could happen with any chimera.

[@megsgriffin]

@@Ouchiness there was another comment and we were talking about the other show that went into more detail about the process

[@cherylbarnett3560]

This proves DNA isn't always straight forward

[@SunshineRacette]

In the meantime cps leaves children in deplorable conditions without a second thought . But rip good families apart

[@Jaggededge112]

CPS needs a complete reform from the top to the bottom. They take children away from loving parents. One case the parents adored their baby they both had full time jobs and were fairly well off, but cps took their baby just cause they smoked weed once in a while and the foster family murders the foster child. it's disgusting and cps should be held responsible for effectively killing an innocent child.

[@sleeplessonterra9845]

Yes Sunshine, i've often referred C.P.S ( or C.A.S in my country) as the O.G' s of child trafficking.

[@katherinepoindexter4380]

in this country no matter how they tell you that you are innocent until proven guilty is a lie. you can be accused of doing something and immediately you are treated as though you are guilty.. you have to prove your innocence.

[@littlemrs.fabulous9432]

I would be broken if someone tried telling me my daughter isn't mine through dna.

[@lucykanniard3635]

LITTLE MRS. FABULOUS! •I would be broken also and then I would bring myself together and then I would go off on who ever was trying to tell me that my girls wasn't my girls. You can mess with me all you want to but my girls are off limits.

[@itsjustme.7059]

I would be too. It took me a long time to get pregnant and I finally had my one and only baby at 40. She is the light of my life. This happened quite a while back so I hope it’s more widely known about in the medical community now.

[@RanndiMarie01]

I feel like if they saw Lydia give birth to the third child and did a DNA test between the new baby and the first two that their would be a match and the case would be over.

[@nillyk5671]

They would have claimed she did IVF

[@app103]

The documentary did say that they did accuse her of being a surrogate, carrying someone else's babies.

[@ericaghelfi8205]

I love how the white lady with white kids had no trouble and the woman with mixed children had a much different treatment…

[@pollysmith6068]

The "white family" was not seeking welfare income. Only trying to understand why her sons had different DNA than mum.

[@daphneraven6745]

The woman from Vancouver, Washington, had subjected herself to her government’s intervention.

[@clairewillow6475]

Never heard of Chimera before. Very interesting

[@jackandpiper]

Don’t these woman have birth records from the hospitals where they delivered?

[@brookebixler1040]

Of course, but the prosecutor would have dismissed that because the dna trumps any of those records, or so he thought.

[@jackandpiper]

@@brookebixler1040 so they thought the doctors and nurses were in on the hoax? Ridiculous 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@petrawilliams9789]

The birth records and birth foot print should take into consideration. Sometimes prosecutor and the courts need to look at the totality of the circumstanses

[@app103]

Just because you give birth, doesn't necessarily mean it's your baby. They accused her of being a surrogate, possibly being paid for carrying someone else's babies, when the 3rd baby came back as not hers, when tested immediately after birth.

[@daphneraven6745]

Jackandpiper: She did; the certificates had the little footprints right on them.

[@sharlawilliamson9609]

I am surprised that it said 0%... I would have thought maybe 25% or something, due to twins and familial DNA... stressful and upsetting to go through, but interesting nonetheless

[@Ginny71166]

Exactly - something is off here. I once heard or read (don’t quote me) that the children of identical twins are basically twin siblings.

[@emirom2]

@@Ginny71166 I thought identical twins had identical DNA too…I’m confused 🤔

[@Ginny71166]

@@emirom2 Identical twins do have identical DNA… what I meant to say is that the children of identical twins (cousins) have enough matching DNA to be siblings. So if my mom was an identical twin and her sister had a child, that child and I, while we’re cousins, would share the same amount of DNA as siblings.

[@SY-ok2dq]

If I understand correctly, it is because the person is getting the DNA of their parents, completely. It should be 50/50 split between the parents - but in the case of chimeras, they are getting 2 sets, 1 set apiece from each parent. And therefore the grandparents or siblings wind up being the match for the kids born to the chimera.

[@leannd9072]

@@emirom2 though this twin wasn't an identical twin. Fraternal twins can fuse as well and that is what was happening here

[@sophieadams0411]

This was a very interesting documentary

[@callieford2228]

This gives "being born in the wrong body" a whole new meaning🤔

[@Tenamf]

I can’t imagine how the mothers felt crazy

[@starriderkittykat9064]

My daughter was born with light skin on one side and dark on the other straight line all the way down,i would tell her that the dark side was her Portugues and the other half German..lol

[@AwfulDog1]

Might want to geneticaly test the skin from each side…

[@daphneraven6745]

Starrider Kittykat: Did her pigmentation remain so strikingly separate bilaterally as she grew to adulthood?

[@Kuwaitisnot_adeployment]

O YEAH! I remember hearing about this. Man how crazy and emotionally trying that must of been for her. Pretty awesome in the end though.

[@michelleburt3468]

Yea mee too.

[@LS-et6se]

Poor lady Lydia!! She was treated so terribly!!

[@rosemaryburr9067]

That was really interesting! I feel so bad for her that she had to go through that! Unbelievable! Best of luck to her.

[@ashleymarie6585]

I don’t get it tho... there was no hospital records of her giving birth to them? No pregnancy photos? No doctor records? Like what? How could they possibly say kids that came out of her body aren’t hers? I’m confused af

[@Kuwaitisnot_adeployment]

No their was all that but you have to remember she was dealing with doctors and officials working for the state and child services. Heartless people that just seen the DNA results and a poor mother trying to find out who the father was and get financial support. Anyone of those things and those heartless people immediately think it's gotta be some sort of scam. She's the aunt or maybe the hospital switched the babies or whatever. If their mission was to help the woman they could've done that but they weren't there trying to help her they just wanted to catch and shame her. Heartless

[@Junitunes]

They did provide that

[@maureenspano6988]

Because the Welfare System and Child Protective Service are heartless. They will go to any means to find something wrong. Because they see anyone in their system has being low lives. "Only low lives collect Welfare. Or wind up getting reported to CPS."

[@anna8389szczerba]

It breaks my heart how lydia cries through out her interviews and is still scarred and traumatized for a lifetime. And the older lady,, ((I forgot the other moms name), (the one that found out her two older sons didn’t match her DNA 🧬 when she had them tested for the kidney transplant)) is kicked back, relaxed, drinking a glass of wine, no troubled or upset emotions at all throughout her interviews of talking about the unmatched DNA situation for her, that is was her and her doctors private decisions to pursue the DNA matter. But Lydia had no choice what so ever once she had done original test because she needed benefits and than the just tore her apart. Literally threw her to the wolves multiple times thru the interrogating of her, which is just ridiculous they way they treated her , again especially with the doctor who delivered those babies right their by Lydia side , their than now insulting the doctors intelligence to, like their so GD out of it they don’t know who coming outta what and what’s coming out of who. Could you imagine if they had pictures of the babies being born, I mean literally thee moment of them coming out of the birth canal 😜, ( it’s more common then you may think lol) but not even that would be proof enough for those a**hole prosecutors

[@ifso9539]

Had she never had a bunch of babies by an irresponsible man who always manages to become her ex right after he's gotten her pregnant, their would be no trauma and no babies to try and take.

[@Frugal_granny]

Prosecutors want tallies to move up the political ladder and “welfare fraud” is so easy since the women are defenseless generally w no means to pay a lawyer to fight the bull!

[@Mosie926]

@jyoti Kumar Yes, this was Biden's fault when this film came out in 2002!

[@BBB73BBB]

Besides her all most lossing her children the saddest part for me was seeing how it clealy shows how people treat others based on a persons status. One was of high standing the other of low. The high standing person was believed and got help while the other was not believed at all, getting no medical profesional help, Getting accused of lying, Getting accused of fraud and almost losing her children.

[@eastwind6820]

Today if the Lydia Fairchild incident happened there are new tests that would her as an aunt to the children. Autosomal DNA testing is way more accurate and would have spared her family all that heartache.

[@app103]

They did at one point accuse her of trying to use her sister's kids to collect welfare, except I don't think she has a sister. (well, not one that had it's own identity as an individual person)

[@MaddieAU]

The title of this video caught my eye. So… Lydia’s children were born of her unborn sisters eggs. Chimeras are interesting. Two people in the same body. But only one conscience.

[@debwiands5150]

Me too. But I missed the part about her unborn sisters eggs.

[@MaddieAU]

@@debwiands5150 That’s why the DNA tests came back saying the kids were not her kids. The chimera part of her… her eggs… were actually the eggs of a twin that never formed. She technically is 2 people.

[@christinevogt-klimshuk2461]

I see a Lifetime Movie right here! 😉

[@Junitunes]

I wonder how often this happens and it’s never caught

[@milmarQ]

My father met a person many years ago that had a brown top half and white bottom half, of his body. He was a coloured man, a tour guide in Matjiesfontein, South Africa.

[@imanimccants1504]

I remember being like 7/8 years old, watching this documentary on discovery health channel in the early 2000s and being fascinated.

[@claudiamandini]

I thought this findings were something NEW!!!! Since 2000 had already 20 years passed! My husband is a doctor (not a genetics the though) and has never heard of these occurrences! AND I definitely believe there thousands of unknown cases out there, taking into account, people doesn't need DNA tests commonly! As I am writing this, It came to my mind, my dad had not two, but 4 kidneys! My own dad could have been a case. He did get to know this fact for sure, because of some stones he suffered and had to go and be checked.. One was just being there, but doing nothing, but the other THREE were safe, sound ANd working! He died at 76, of a sudden the heart attack, but he used to eat a lot smoke and be very active. So he lived his life (thank God) to the fullest. Oh my! How I wools have loved to know if he had a twin brother to be! Hahahaha

[@lightyagami3492]

@@claudiamandini You still might be able to figure that out today by testing his descendants

[@reneeanthony73]

I’ve seen a documentary about people who are a chimaera it’s very fascinating! I just cannot believe the police putting them through this, I mean come on didn’t the doctor that delivered the babies speak up for her?

[@leannd9072]

He did he was in this documentary... he said the footprintd taken in the delivery room were also compared and matched but the court wasn't willing to consider the documents he signed

[@My_Jewish_life_in_Aruba]

@@leannd9072 Horrible 😭😭😭😭

[@kimmiekim2696]

Y’all got the music so loud there at the end I can barely understand the narrator

[@MA-mh1vs]

I think this is more common than they think but most are not getting DNA testing to find out. My ex-husband went to donate blood and found out he had atypical antibodies. It was determined he had absorbed his twin in the womb and was a chimera. His niece from a sister in law needed DNA to determine the father and she had the DNA of 2 men and it was determined she had absorbed her twin but that twin was conceived by another man so she had trace amounts of his DNA in her. One factor seen in both is them not getting sick, these antibodies their bodies make due to the mix give a natural immunity to pretty much everything. I have wondered about my daughter in law as she has no recollection of having ever been sick and she most certainly never been sick in the last 3yrs I have known her. This is strange as she is a type 1 diabetic and never being sick. I can not help but wonder if she too may have these atypical antibodies that give her immunity. Maybe all those people who never seem to get sick do not just have a good immune system.

[@yugimutou9762]

She should sue the court. What happened to her was disgusting. I heard judge forced a observer on her when she was in labor.

[@nicholeburd8751]

Wow, almost makes me want to have my children and I tested. This is some interesting stuff

[@ce1581]

I saw this years ago and shortly after met a woman with a baby. the baby's shirt lifted up I saw a patterned side and a solid color side and I was so shocked I couldn't get a word out. Later I called her dad and explained how important it was that she and her daughter get it straightened out before some medical emergency arose. I hope she figured it out. 🙏

[@DajanaDarling]

She means that when the shirt lifted she could see the baby‘s tummy. A line and two skin colours could indicate that the baby is half its twin as well. There was a document about that also.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

As bizarre as this case is, why does she keep having babies with a person shes not even married to, and had split up with several times. it makes no sense. when my relationship with my ex started to go sour soon after i married him; i took double the birth control to make SURE i wd not get pregnant so i would have NO reason for any contact after the split.

[@ritawallace-reed7500]

It's a personal decision to or not to get married.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

of course, but it causes chaos for everyone if youre with the wrong person, or get pregnant by the wrong person, or fail to marry the right person. chaos personified.@@ritawallace-reed7500

[@sanne46]

Please drop the music. In between we can't hear what's been said.

[@LoveAngelBaby]

This was very insightful wow

[@Hampdensipnpaint]

This story is so sad. I feel so sorry for Lydia and the trauma she went through until they figured it out.

[@celestelincoln3258]

Unless they test every mother and child they can’t say this particular kind of Chimerism is “extremely rare”. These cases were discovered because of their particular situations.

[@AmyMichelleMosier]

I am a chimera and in trying to talk to lab techs and genetic doctors to get more information, they really treat it as much ado about nothing.

[@Unconventionalgirl23]

Wow, this is so interesting.

[@janetpressler7787]

Your horn music toward the end is too loud! I couldn’t hear the narrator for the loud horns.

[@ktrainbow9765]

I watched this documentary about a year ago... This was such an eye opener. I love it! ❤️❤️ WHEN WILL YOU DO A FOLLOW UP STORY ON THIS?

[@farmor1023]

So very interesting! Thank you for sharing 😊

[@JaimeMesChiens]

I was enjoying this documentary, then, this hideous music assaulted me and I could not hear anything beyond the music. I did not see the last-minutes because the music made it intolerable to continue. I’m assuming Lydia is a chimera and her kids are fine with her.

[@gothic_ace2037]

Apparently hers is in her ovaries

[@abe365]

I thought if it was her sister's child there should be some DNA match, right? Is there a chance that siblings have 0 percent DNA match?

[@emirom2]

They should, otherwise how is it possible to do those genealogy DNA tests to find distant relatives?

[@belinda7866]

I'm confuse too

[@eastwind6820]

These cases happened almost twenty years ago. Autosomal DNA testing wasn’t around in 2002.

[@AwfulDog1]

Are you sure? Ancestral DNA profiles have been around longer than twenty years and use autos ones.

[@AwfulDog1]

Ancestral DNA has been around 38 yrs. I checked.

[@kylabumgardner1359]

I don’t know why I’m pointing it out but she looks a lot like Heath Ledger R.I.P. Ledger

[@petitehippie7064]

She really does. Especially in the photo at the beginning. A cross between Heath Ledger and Val kilmer.

[@DASANDS-oz3my]

I thought the same thing 🙂

[@mjarboesdf]

@@petitehippie7064 She does look like Heath Ledger and a young Val Kilmer, but I think she looks even more like Julia Stiles.. maybe bc she is a girl! 😊

[@petitehippie7064]

@@mjarboesdf Yes! She does look like Julia stiles.

[@EmelyPhan]

and kind of look like Mädchen Amick

[@zomuanpuiiraltecolney8628]

This is so interesting!!

[@roseharvey2664]

Saw this on a programme years ago, the criminal had 2 sets of DNA and was showing up as the attacker. Think it was on cis. Poor Lydia though talk about upsetting, thank goodness she has been proved to be the mother, she would have been stuffed if her third child came back as hers - which was the case with the first lady. I think this must be more frequent than is known. At least they can find out more from Lydia's case.

[@teresaleach7955]

Very very interesting!

[@marytrimber7069]

That background music is so loud I can't heat the narrator in some spots... Ugh....

[@VianneyCreates]

I don't think they really addressed how the kids don't have her DNA. I suppose the eggs that were fertilized that became her babies were of the other "person." That's why the older gal had two kids not matching her but her youngest came from an egg of hers that had her matching blood DNA. I'm super confused now. LOL!! (I guess they finally mentioned this at the end. I would like to hear more about it. So interesting.)

[@JenniB123]

Has anyone EVER heard of Siamese twins that are not also identical twins???? No, because their explanation isn't possible. Additionally, in that case, there would be a 25% DNA match, but they said there was 0% DNA match. I think that the explanation has to have something to do with the polar bodies because when the DNA splits to form the egg, half of the DNA forms a polar body which has the opposite chromosomes to what the egg has, therefore the polar body and the egg have 0% DNA match. However, none of that explains how the DNA inherited from the mother's father wouldn't have a 12.5% match with the offspring. Its almost like two diploid cells (normal sperm & eggs being haploid cells) have joined together and then gone through the separation process usually reserved to the production of sperm & eggs.

[@geekemedia]

It is possible. Just super unlikely. Her and her twin would have had to be fraternal

[@tinkabell39]

This is so intriguing n interesting..

[@petitehippie7064]

I don't understand the title of this video. It's doing my head in.

[@TaylorJohnson-ur8ek]

It's a misleading, clickbait-y title. But the story is way more fascinating than the title could show.

[@myrialynn]

I was right with you! The story is very fascinating.

[@hopesoosai3861]

If two eggs that fused in the womb didn’t fuse there would have been two babies at birth .. the title scared me honestly

[@KS-zc4jn]

Twins fused in the womb within the first few days of conception. The DNA for the children belongs to these ladies' twins that fused with them. So technically, genetically they are the aunt. (And Karen, the older lady, her older 2 sons are genetically cousins with the 3rd brother.) So strange, yet interesting.

[@KS-zc4jn]

@@TaylorJohnson-ur8ek There's nothing "clickbait-y" about it. The twins fused together, so one of them did not fully form and was not born.

[@biblewomen77]

Valid point..what if someone was a chimera.. Criminal... Father..not father but Chimera..

[@debbiedarrah6518]

The back round music sounds like fog horns very annoying and takes away from the story.

[@sngray11]

I have seen other docs on the topic of chimeras and the arduous court journey that comes along with being a chimera mother that has given birth to children in the age of DNA testing.

[@romeeo69]

Please turn off the damn noise/music so the dialog can be heard! Very interesting video!

[@poonamsvideoblogs]

This video would have been better shorter and minus the music.

[@Frugal_granny]

Realty: It’s not as rare … it’s just that the medical community hasn’t recorded as many cases!

[@marcellinejackson3826]

For those of you complaining about the music try playing the video on your tv. To me; the music is a bit loud off and on, but not terribly distracting.

[@mountaineermolly4816]

Very interesting.

[@amandacomire7705]

Fascinating stories but WHY IS THE BACKGROUND MUSIC SO LOUD

[@bestgrandma7442]

Now I’ll see some one with different pigmentation , and I’ll look and Wonder is this person walking with their twin…. Would they go through a similar story? God Bless them all and give them strength to endure this mix up. ❤️🙏🏼

[@honeybunch5765]

How fascinating and utterly weird.

[@sarahstauffer4874]

This is incredible 😃

[@reme001]

Sorry to hear of these traumatic situations. To Jamie, tooken is NOT a word.

[@katielink6906]

I cant believe she had to prove these were her own children! Also she looks just like that girl 4rm save the last dance😭!

[@cherylcolautti5401]

So are all hermaphrodites Chimeras? Just curious as there was a hermaphrodite in my family, on my Grandfathers side I think in the generation before him or maybe one of his siblings

[@myrialynn]

Ahh yes! I would love to know, this is so interesting.

[@geekemedia]

Actually yes

[@PrairieDawnC]

It was said that if Karen had been born a boy that he'd be a hermaphrodite.

[@tammyt870]

It makes no sense that there would be NO match. If you have a twin, their children would share dna with you the same as any niece or nephew.

[@onewotldgovernmentonlywhen9044]

Fraternal twins don’t carry the same exact DNA 🧬. One of my grandmother was a fraternal twin with a male. There’s also other twins in my family who are fraternal twin but of the same gender

[@heatherdva]

what a nightmare!! poor parents

[@amylarson3958]

Why didn't the father take those children while this manner was decided? Can someone riddle me this? That was the time to step up not giving an interview

[@geekemedia]

They were both being accused of the scam

[@daphneraven6745]

Amy Larson: it wasn’t just the mother being accused of criminal activity, it was the father, too. So, the government policy was to remove all the children that they thought might be on the receiving end of maltreatment in order to scam money from the government.

[@lisaeischens2352]

@@daphneraven6745 Scamming for something that people in other countries get for free. Our healthcare system is so wrong.

[@daphneraven6745]

Lisa Eischens: it wasn’t healthcare they were being accused of scamming; it was welfare benefits.

[@joykind4258]

That music is horrible. It sounds like two different videos are playing at the same time.

[@extracelestial1027]

lydia looks so much like julia stiles to me in the throwback pics

[@mjarboesdf]

I think she also looks like Heath Ledger! 🙂

[@dcallaway1]

The judge and prosecutors had to swallow some of that hubris they were carrying

[@x0xTHLover4Lifex0x]

Don't identical twins share 99% DNA?

[@theweirdmom]

Yes but an absorbed twin doesn't HAVE to be an identical twin. Chimeras can be hermaphrodite. I'm sure you're aware that a set of twins that are as boy and a girl are not identical.

[@redravenous1604]

No.

[@geekemedia]

They're not identical

[@geekemedia]

@@redravenous1604 they do. Literally

[@x0xTHLover4Lifex0x]

@@theweirdmom of course. The doctor threw me off with the conjoined comment as all conjoined twins are identical

[@kimmyhead6507]

I couldn’t hear anything over that dramatic music

[@RK-tp5np]

The boys look like their mother! How strange that the DNA doesn’t…

[@ursulasilva5838]

Oh geez. I remember this case. It was so weird.

[@ForTheLoveOfMike]

I can almost hear this fascinating story under this awful music. Holy cow. Didn't the creator watch this before publishing?

[@rridderbusch518]

Almost all of tv is this way with too much loud so-called "music". I have to put on closed captioning, but if it doesn't line up with the person speaking (which it often doesn't,) I quit the show.

[@liznijak4127]

Wasn't this on a Netflix show that had a bunch of different strange stories? What was it called??

[@brega6286]

What a nightmare !! Seems the authorities discounted the medical professionals who were there witnessing the births ?? How could the court not believe those present at the births and the footprints. This example and Karen's are a threat to DNA evidence so it makes sense the justice system would panic. The stress and fear Lydia went through tugs at my heart.

[@katygribble8388]

why did I get a Dna test add right before this video lol

[@ginnab777]

Wow ! Just bizarre😳

[@marymemlendon5522]

I want to watch this video. It’s very interesting. But when you play this background music, I can’t hear the actors are saying.

[@punkyduck28]

Fascinating.

[@tarashelton493]

I would go get my delivery videos and show them to them all!!! I filmed my births! I would have let the world see me give birth to prove it🤣🤣🤣

[@noelle7287]

That's so interesting.