Switched At Birth

I am sure the case is judged in context.

If the fake parents sold her as a slave, would they need to return the money?

If they didn’t sell her as a slave, would they need to pay the real parents the value they got from her by not selling her, in the form of dishes washed and laundry folded, and babies held?

Also, how did we now find out? We say the midwife is believed to say which baby is which, so if she changes her story won’t it be “keivan she’higid”?

Popa, if we are talking about switched and not snatched, then we have to see if it was an even trade. If it was a boy for girl, would they have to pay back the ones who raised their boy without getting help? If we find out during Shiduchim, can you charge more Nadden for the new Yichus?

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It’s a completely different context but I believe it applies here

Actually, that’s the subtitle. The title is: She thought she was Irish — until a DNA test opened a 100-year-old mystery

popa, read the full article please. The evidence in that Jewish-Irish story seems very strong.

That would be a different story. Not this story.

From a halachic perspective, do we say the child brought up as Irish is Jewish and the one brought up as Jewish is non-Jewish? If they had been female, would that have affected the respective Jewish-status of their offspring, even though the error only came to light 100 years later?

We can extend the question above, someone can’t have children anymore and discovers that he married one of the forbidden relationships, does he have to divorce her?

One common thread in almost all switched at birth stories is the mother almost always is insisting that this is not her baby and her concerns are not taken seriously. I’ve read several such stories and in pretty much every case the mother knew. One such mother had been protesting for days that she was sent home with the wrong baby and when no one was taking her seriously she started staying quiet and not telling anyone. As her daughter got older and it became more obvious that this child looked nothing like her other children, she was certain that this was someone else’s child and started writing letters to the daughter that was being raised by someone else and putting them in a drawer for when she would eventually hopefully meet her daughter again. She never said anything until her dying day because she didn’t want the daughter she was raising to feel “less than” her other children. Unfortunately the switch wasn’t proven until after the mother’s death.

Are the children mamzerim if they married forbidden relationships unwittingly? Catch, I would say according to you, yes.

Its almost unimaginable, but what if someone could show that Joseph was switched at birth and his real parents were an MO couple from San Francisco who graduated from UC Berkley, were active in Democratic Party politics and now own the only Canabis dispensary w Chasidishe hashgacha???

Joseph; I read that story. I don’t know enough details as to the actual birth to know whether or not the women protested or if it was even possible for them to be aware of the switch. If I recall correctly, at that time women were often put to sleep and then given their baby when they woke up, which could easily have been the wrong baby to begin with.