Brother and sister

I believe this is a real life thing...On the Maury show i saw that a couple was married and had a kid together. Well they thought they were related because of their father. i'm supposing he left one of their mothers to be with the other. But the couple didn't know. I'm sure the father knew they were related when he actually seen the wife. (his supposed daughter.) So the results came back and the couple was brother and sister. The couple was devasted but still decided to stay together....what's your opinion?

You say the psychological trauma would be enough to make them split, but put yourself in their shoes. They're married, they've been in love for who knows how long, and if it's true love, would it really be that easy to just walk away? Not to mention they have a child now. If they split, they'll have to explain why they did to the child one day. I'm not sure what I would do in this situation, as I have never been put in a situation like that, but you have to look at it from all angles here.

"...but you have to look at it from all angles here."

^ Haha, says who?

They already had the child before they found out they were siblings, to my understanding, so the damage was already done, there's no preventing it.

I agree

I've heard these sort of stories before and the only way to prevent them from happening is by two ways; recording family ties and trees when a child is born, and having DNA tests for all couples who want to get married... but that plan still has many holes in them, some women do not know the father of their child since they had many partners before getting pregnant and another thing is that people have sex before marrige and that no one will go looking for the family record of the person they're dating until they need to... even more holes actually.
So, I say once it's done it'll hurt the children more than the parents to split up... imagine that happened to you, how will you break up and how can you tell you're children that you married their uncle who is your brother... that's hard. Especially if they are happily married and they have been together for a long time and everyone recognises them as husband and wife.
It is easy to be disgusted by the relationship if you're an outsider and you think of them as brother and sister in a sibling sort of way... imagining that they could've been raised up in the same house and comparing their relationship with your relationship with your siblings. But imagine their true relationship, they have never seen each other in their whole life, they haven't lived with each other in their childhood and they had no idea the other exsisted until they met and fell in love.
I do think they should stay together, but they should try to detach themselves from one another as lovers and begin a new way of life as brother and sister with children, although that is too weird and hard.

Whatever floats your boat, I guess. -shrugs-

Very true

"They already had the child before they found out they were siblings, to my understanding, so the damage was already done, there's no preventing it."

^ I watched this story unfold on Maury. It is true, they did conceive the child before they found out they were siblings. So whether this child does have a genetic disease of some kind, I can't recall, or whether the child will as he grows older is hard to say, we'll just have to wait for an update on a future show, but there's nothing that can be done about it except treat him if he has or ever does develop a genetic disease. However, I do not agree with your statement that there is "no preventing it". There is a way to prevent it. They are still together and are still "romantically" involved with one another, so as long as they are having or do have unprotected sex, and if she winds up pregnant again, there is always a risk for that child to develop a genetic disease or deformity. I'm not sure if they want more children or not, but they can do the most unselfish thing by using protection.

I don't believe a damn thing on Maury, this probably does happen... and would be fairly sad to find out the love of your life is your sister/brother. Scrubs did a nice piece on this kinda thing when the main character was dreaming about losing his daughter and going to a bar as an old man and picking her up for a one night stand. The scenario was obviously a ''purely'' accidental type thing.

Agree with you there, Elizabeth. I was thinking about the one child, I hadn't thought about future children. They should definitely use protection, if they decide to still have intercourse.