Evaluating the News Story About the Kilshaws Adopting Twin Babies
In the week of the 16th of January 2001, Judith and Alan Kilshaw from
Flintshire, North Wales decided to tell the tale of their
controversial adoption of the "Internet Twins", to the Sun. This
turned out to be a big mistake for them and their recently adopted
twins, Belinda and Kimberley. The stories that ensued described the
Internet baby industry "lurid" by some magazines, and follow-up
stories labelled the Kilshaws as a "dirty, eccentric couple who aren't
at all fit to be parents". Shortly after the story got out, social
workers in Flintshire took the twins into custody and a judge later
ruled that they should "remain in the care of the local authority"
while courts in both the USA and the UK decided the fate of the
"Internet Twins".
One question we could ask is where the "Internet Twins" really belong
but the first question we should ask is who is most to blame for the
fact that these two American born, eight month old "Internet twins"
are now in the care of British Social Services?
The first person we would think of would be the natural mother of the
twins, Tranda Wecker. She was the one who put her two youngest
children up for adoption in the first place. She was the woman who
sold her babies to one family (the Allens), via the Internet, for
$6,000 because she was going through a divorce and did not have the
money to bring them up, then deceived the Allens so that she could
take the babies and sell them again (for $12,500) to the Kilshaws. Now
she has decided that she wants her babies back again. The idea of
parents making money from putting their babies up for adoption is an
awful idea. You can't pay money for a person because people are not
things that can be bought and sold, each person has a life and you
can't buy and sell life. If you look at Tranda Wecker as that kind of
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