{"id":70065,"date":"2024-03-11T14:49:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T07:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternatech.net\/?p=70065"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T07:49:12","slug":"a-curious-grandmother-and-a-dna-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writehorizon.com\/a-curious-grandmother-and-a-dna-test\/","title":{"rendered":"A curious grandmother and a DNA test"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bond between grandparents and their grandchildren is an important link to both the family\u2019s history and the child\u2019s personal growth.\n

Grandparents provide unconditional love and support, and a shoulder to cry on during the toughest of times.\n

One grandma took to Reddit to ask if she was wrong for helping one of her grandchildren delve deeper into her heritage.\n

When her granddaughter was born, the grandma hadn\u2019t seen her during the six months of her life because her son and her daughter-in-law were abroad.\n

The girl, Lindsey, wasn\u2019t the couple\u2019s first child. She was born second, and the family welcomed another child later. As time went by, everyone started realizing that Lindsey didn\u2019t resemble her siblings at all. While they were darker and had brown eyes and dark hair, Lindsey had curly blonde hair.\n

One day, the grandma decided to ask her son and her daughter-in-law about Lindsey, saying there was something fishy about the way she became part of the family. Her son got really angry at his mom for questioning his daughter\u2019s heritage, claiming she was indeed their biological child.\n

When Lindsay turned 15, she also started realizing that she was very different from her siblings.\n

One day, during biology class, Lindsay approached her teacher and started asking her about the ways she could learn whether she was indeed her parents\u2019 child. The teacher told her everything there is about DNA testing, and Lindsay was determined to take one, but the issue was that she didn\u2019t have the money for something like that.\n

When she told her grandma about her doubts and her wish to learn more about herself, her grandma was more than willing to pay for the test.Eventually, it was determined that Lindsay and her siblings didn\u2019t share the same mother. Lindsay\u2019s father got another woman pregnant while married to his wife, and when the woman gave birth to Lindsay, she gave her to her father to raise her.\n

\u201cThis has blown up the family while Lindsey is pissed to being lied to, I am getting a ton of heat for getting her a DNA test. Now they won\u2019t talk to me which is making Lindsey even more mad at them,\u201d the grandma wrote in her post.\n

While some took the stand that the grandma shouldn\u2019t have done what she did, many praised her for helping her granddaughter learn the truth about herself.\n

What are your thoughts on this?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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