For sure. I was honestly expecting some nurse to just walk away with him at some point for tests or something. Was interesting to me that he never left us. Was different than I’ve seen in media.
Right. So 28,000 people don't matter so we shouldn't do a simple cheek swab from a mother and a baby to make absolutely sure. You're just being cantankerous.
I'm not saying it doesn't matter (statistically they don't, but as humans they do) but I'm much more concerned about problems that matter, like children and mothers who die in childbirth for instance...
Right 28,000 kids and 56,000 parents don't deserve a safeguard to keep their family together because they only "technically exist". I guess not everyone is created equal.
Who shit in your cornflakes? Were you switched at birth or something? It's not like these people are dying or something. Most people er even become aware.
When you are talking about billions of births, and low income countries that expense for each birth is a significant expense for a low probability occurrence. The US spends a ton of money and effort not to force DNA tests by developing systems like tracking bracelets for every child.
Yeah because DNA tests are controversial for some reason. I guess it's more morally important to force a man to care for a child that isn't his than it is to make someone who cheated face the consequences of their actions. Shit like this is why I don't date.
Woah, that’s a crazy low number. I was expecting much higher to be honest.
Google says 130-140 million babies are born per year, so only 28k mixups is just 0.02% of babies. A fifth of a tenth of a percent - surprisingly good number there imo.
I’m not saying it’s not a bad thing for those 28k families or that their individual tragedy doesn’t matter. I’m only saying that in the aggregate, the world is a lot better at keeping track of babies than I expected.
When we’re talking about the whole world’s population, even the most extremely rare events still affect tens of thousands.
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Still happens 28,000 times a year world wide though.