miércoles, 31 de mayo de 2017

The DNA detective helping to reunite families

Julia Bell is a woman who helps people find their parents, siblings, or other relatives. A man, Robert Weston contacted her because he wanted to find his siblings. He was abandoned in a cinema toilet 61 years ago and now he has found his siblings.
First she has to do a DNA test and then she has to look in the databases to find someone that matches with some part of the DNA. 
Weston told Julie that he had been searching for a long time, but when she did the DNA test and searched on the database, she found a second cousin who told her about other relatives in his family. So Julia took a DNA test on some relative and she found coincidences with Robert's test, he was his brother. She got into this because her mother didn't know who her father was so she found that he was dead but there was a sister who was alive and now that sister is in touch with the family.
Personal opinion
I think that is very beautiful to be able to use science to figure out things like this. I can understand that people abandoned their children in the second World War because there were no safe methods of abortion or ways to prevent unwanted pregnancy but now, I don't know why people keep abandoning their children, because if you decided that you want to be mother or father you have to do whatever you can to protect your child. Maybe the parents had some reasons to abandon their child so I think that the DNA detective is very useful in these cases.

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