Identical twins a world apart

My genetically twin daughters are just so different. They were close as young children and then drifted away from each other. One has a family and the other doesn’t. One has a career and other doesn’t.

Must say that my identical twin girls are very much each others best friend. They are competitive, argue a lot of the time they are together, but so very, very close. One of them married and lived in North Ireland for twenty years, and then managed to persuade hubbie for them and their two young daughters to relocate to just a few miles away from where her twin lived. They are both so much happier having each other close by. There definitely is a very close bond between them closer than any of their other siblings have with each other, although all get on on very well. Cannot imagine having had them split up - even when one had to into hospital for tonsils op. the hospital permitted their 'no children visitors' rule to be waived, as otherwise I had one crying in hospital and one crying at home.

And yet we can see how different twins can be if you watched the Caroline Flack documentary both brought up together yet seemingly poles apart with very different end results

it was very illustrative of the effect of nurture as well as nature.
such totally different environments, ways of living, everyday life, assumptions about what children can and should do.
those girls will be about 16 by now, so almost grown up.
i guess they'll both do well in terms of studies, careers, so maybe will eventually be able to visit each other more, take holidays together on neutral ground, perhaps go to china.

I saw it when it was first shown. I found it very interesting and moving. Both of the children seemed to have been fortunate with their adoptive families but what a terrible shame that they were split up like that. My grandchildren watched it too and, although they are quite young, it held their attention.

The triplets one was extremely sad.

One of the problems with international adoptions is that we can’t really trust some countries to act in the best interests of the children

I think I was getting mixed up. I thought the programme being discussed was about the triplets in America who were deliberately given to different types of families to see how much nurture influenced character over nature.

I missed that, it sounds interesting, hopefully it’s on BBC iPlayer. I did see Three Identical Strangers though and found it a very tragic story.

I watched both programmes.
The triplets one was chilling in the deliberate splitting up of the boys. An experiment!

Yes i watched it, i was interested really at the start because i have identical twins,
It was very moving,and i am so glad they got to meet,and i'm sure in the future they will have chance to have more time together,but i think it was very cruel of the chinese orphanage to deny they were twins,as they maybe could have had a home together

US triplets

I saw it quite sometime ago. I agree - I remember it as very said. Your post reminded me of the programme about the triplets. Both programmes speak to the commodification of children.