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In a way, it could be cynical if the protagonst is the birth parent and they find their child only to find out that they prefer their adopted parents. The Deep End of the Ocean is kind of like that (a three year old boy is kidnapped, his parents finally find him when he\'s a preteen only to find that he prefers living with the man who raised him and had nothing to do with the kidnapping).
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In a way, it could be cynical if the protagonst is the birth parent and they find their child only to find out that they prefer their adopted parents. The Deep End of the Ocean is kind of like that. A three year old boy is kidnapped, his parents finally find him when he\\\'s a preteen only to find that he prefers living with the man who raised him (and had nothing to do with the kidnapping).
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I a way, it could be cynical if the protagonst is the birth parent and they find their child only to find out that they prefer their adopted parents. The Deep End of the Ocean is kind of like that (a three year old boy is kidnapped, his parents finally find him when he\'s a preteen only to find that he prefers living with the man who raised him and had nothing to do with the kidnapping).
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In a way, it could be cynical if the protagonst is the birth parent and they find their child only to find out that they prefer their adopted parents. The Deep End of the Ocean is kind of like that (a three year old boy is kidnapped, his parents finally find him when he\\\'s a preteen only to find that he prefers living with the man who raised him and had nothing to do with the kidnapping).
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\\\"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Parents euthanize their child upon seeing symptoms of a painful degenerative disease to which they had already lost another child. Turns out that the child was healthy, the symptoms were caused by something else.\\\"
Bonus points: The parents had had the toddler tested for the disease, but the results weren\\\'t back yet. The results were in by the time CSI figured out what had really happened.
The baby really was ill. [[spoiler:The mother worked for a pesticide company and often brought product home to use in her garden. (Using industrial-grade pesticides in that manner is illegal in many places.) When questioned about if she knew what the known neurological effects of intense chronic pesticide exposure were (and the questioner started listing them), the mother brushed it aside with a \\\'yes, I know that\\\'. Then she failed to see the relevancy of whether she washed her hands and changed her clothes after working with pesticides and before holding her son. Three guesses what was really wrong with the poor baby. :( ]]
Bonus points: The parents had had the toddler tested for the disease, but the results weren\\\'t back yet. The results were in by the time CSI figured out what had really happened.
The baby really was ill. [[spoiler:The mother worked for a pesticide company and often brought product home to use in her garden. (Using industrial-grade pesticides in that manner is illegal in many places.) When questioned about if she knew what the known neurological effects of intense chronic pesticide exposure were (and the questioner started listing them), the mother brushed it aside with a \\\'yes, I know that\\\'. Then she failed to see the relevancy of whether she washed her hands and changed her clothes after working with pesticides and before holding her son. Three guesses what was really wrong with the poor baby. :( ]]
