We gots to get us some of that reform, Daddy.

So I caught a story in Reuters' Oddly Enough news telling of a pair of British twins who were separated at birth and adopted by different families. The, in and of itself, isn't the story, but they ended up getting married.

Yeah, married.

I know, apparently they were fraternal, opposite sex twins. It's not what I assume when I first hear twins, but that's got to be the case.

Two things about the story catch me as interesting...

One, how little evidence is there of this really happening?

Alton said he had heard the story of the separated twins from a High Court judge who had dealt with the case....

...and no further information was available about the twins or where they were from.

Seems awfully sketchy for a member of the House of Lords to take to Parliment and suggest litigation. No proof of who the couple is or whether they really existed. Might as well be a guy saying he heard about a guy who knew a girl who knew this couple.

Secondly, even if it is true, I can't imagine that it's happened very frequently if ever other than this one time. Legislation should not be made based on one freakish, flukish event.

Sure, there might be reasons to tell adoptive children about their birth parents - genetic testing, family history of illnesses, freakish inheritences from kings of Ghana - but because the adoptive kids might grow up and marry long, lost siblings probably isn't the best reason.