SEE RESPONSES.....If you discovered your five-year-old child was swapped at birth, would you give him or her back for your real child?

hehehehe.......There have been stories of hospitals where the staff made the mistake of swapping babies of mothers who just put to bed. If you found out one day that the child you had been taking care of for five years was swapped at birth and not your real child, would you let go of him/her for your biological child? Read some Nigerians’ responses below: abeg
I have to get my real child back

Kunle Adojutelegan

Yes, I would give him up for my biological child. The reality that he is not my child would set in one day. I am a typical Yoruba man and there is an adage that says that if a house is peaceful, then it means the bastard son has not yet grown. I would return the child and get my real child back. I would forget about the resources I had spent on him. It would not be easy to let him stay again after realising he is not my biological child. I would not be able to give him the total love that he deserves anymore.

I’d care for both children
Pamilerin Salam
I would accept the child I had been taking care of as my own child. However, I would sue the hospital that made the mistake of swapping my own child for someone else’s. Nevertheless, I would not return the child with me and I would still ensure that I get my biological child back. I would take care of both of them.
I can’t let go of the child
Olili Evans
We are talking about a child that I have spent my resources on. It is going to be a hard decision to take, but I would take it. I can’t abandon a child I have come to love and cherish for a ‘stranger,’ that is, my biological child. The fact here is that the love and bond I’ve shared with the child cannot be easily forgotten. To swap is not going to be easy; things would get complicated. I know God would have had a reason why He allowed it to happen.
My real child would always be my child
Kofoworola Adewole
It’s hard but I would go for my real child. I wouldn’t mind relinquishing the connection with the one in my care before. The moment I see my real child, I’m sure the love would develop naturally. I know that that motherly love would spring up immediately. My child will always be my child, no matter the mistake that had taken place. Meanwhile, I must say it wouldn’t be easy to give up the child I’d spent five years of my life with.
The child would prove to be a bastard someday
Ajiboye Akinalabi
After the necessary tests like the DNA test had been carried out to ascertain that the child with me is not my biological child, I have to accept my fate. I would have to swap him again for my own child, because he would prove to me that he is a bastard someday. It would be painful to know that I had been spending resources on a child that’s not my own, but it is all good and well that the truth finally came out.
I’d love to keep both children
Zainab Kamisoko
Yes, I would go for my biological child, but I would not let the other child leave my life as well because he’s the one that has been with me from birth; he had also sucked my breast. Sincerely speaking, it would be very difficult for me to let him go. If his mother would allow me to adopt him, I would. He would be my child too. It’s not going to be easy to take care of someone else’s child for five years and just let him leave my life.

To avoid future pain, I’d let him go
Akopome Theophilus
The truth is that parent-child love is a very strong form of love. It would not be easy to give up a child that one had spent five years of one’s life with. However, that’s what should be done in order to set things straight and avoid trouble later in life. In the future, there might be some problems for refusing to do what is right. So I would swap the child for my biological one.
It’s better to let him go now for future’s sake
Aminat Adesanya
After taking care of the child for five years, it would be very bad and even hard to let him go because by then, both of us would have been used to each other. But still, I’d have to take back my real child. I would be checking on him at his real parents’ place. I think it is better that the discovery was made when he’s five years old. If in the future he needs blood transfusion and neither my husband nor I have his blood type, there would be trouble and by that time, it would be the worst nightmare to find out that he’s not my real child. I’d rather let him go now that he’s younger than when he’s grown up.
No swapping again
Samuel Kwamena
It would be difficult to give up a child that I have established a connection with. The best thing to do is to allow my biological child to grow with his new parents while I keep on taking care of the one in my care. Let them grow in their environments. Changing them again might be bad for them. Sometime in the future, I know my child would realise he had not been living with his real parents and he would come to look for me, ditto with the one in my care. There’s no problem about that.
It’d be difficult to let him go
Loveth Oboh
I would keep the child and love him like my real child. But if the parents insist that they want him back, I would be left with no choice but to give him up because he deserves his parental care too. It would be very hard to let go of the memories we’ve had together — I’ve bathed him, fed him, changed his diapers, watched him cry and sleep. It is going to be very difficult to give him up due to the mother-child love that would have been built between us.