Best Interests of the Child

A 14-year-old is old enough to know what is in her best interests. It's ridiculous to try to tear her from her adoptive family. Why they're trying to obtain legal custody, when the girl is old enough to have a relationship with regardless of custody, is beyond reason.

Twins Reunited After 14 Years
ABC News

14 years of her life, Andrea Penaherrera never knew she had a sister.

But on one day four months ago in the southern Ecuadorean town of Milagros, she and her mother were shocked to walk into a restaurant and see across the room another face that looked just like Andrea's.

The girls had the same hair, eyes and were identical in every way.

It didn't take long for Andrea and the other girl, Marielisa, to realize that they were twins, separated at birth.

Across the globe, the discovery generated headlines, in part for how the two girls met. But, there was another twist -- the alleged story of how the two were separated in the first place.

The girls' biological mother, Petita Penaherrera, said doctors never told her she had twins.