Two sisters, each adopted from China by different American families, meet in person for the first time. FAMILY CONTENT: www.goodmorningamerica.com/fa...
things like this happened in the US in the 50's and 60's under the guise of the brave new world of psychology we now have laws against this but it's much more difficult to regulate with international adoptions. there are 15 recorded instances of this happening in the US and 3/15 of these individuals committed suicide so i am incredibly worried for these girls mental health in the future this is so traumatic
T W I S T E D s i s t e r well my mum had my older brother who is 21 then had my other older brothers who are twins who are 19 then they had me I am 14 then my sister who is 13 when I was 1 my little sister was just born my mum and dad split up he took all my siblings and left me with my mum then my dad had my other sister who is 7 with another woman I have never met my brothers but I have met my sisters well I guess I have met my brothers but when I was 1 year old I can't remember it me and my sisters have never met them and my brothers have now moved out so we don't think we will ever meet them
T W I S T E D s i s t e r no it hasn’t but I don’t tell many people only people I trust I just wanted to tell u because u said they should never be separated just to let u know many siblings have been separated sadly
As a Chinese I have to express deepest gratitude to both families. My best and warmest regards to all members of your families in each and everyday to come
as a Filipino please advise Mr. Xi Jinping to follow the international Law specially in claiming territories of other countries so my fellow filipino and fisherman never experience again any harassment with chinese coast guards in their own land.
@@srprsmthrfckr885Why do you say this to an ordinary people in China😂We are just normal citizens who can do nothing about government’s decision. We cannot say anything about the domestic issues inside China, how could we talk about the international issues😂
I get that showing something like this on TV can sort of cheapen the moment, but in a world as cold and cynical as this has become, I just want to say thank you to these two beautiful girls for doing this. Some of us might have needed to see it. I know I needed to.
That's not their burden, to brighten your day. If ppl are feeling down, try volunteering, it's amazing for the soul. This reunion should have been private with more direct and ongoing mental health supports.
@@taroka1119 and it's not your place to say whether this was s burden for these girls or not. This is an amazing story and im more than glad to learn about it. In fact it's been a jump start of sorts for me to do some things better in my life.
Not wrong, american TV is pretty bad but this is a new level. The parents even saying ooo chinese girl etc. Those american "parents" are after one thing and they got it. Air time. Sickening to say the least. Also fuck you below this lot talking shit to this comment. Fucking sheep. Come at me. Gross individuals you are.
@@m4heshd It's not your place to make fun of internet warriors who are clearly more educated than the twin-study psychologist and the others involved. How dare you say what you said about what he said about what she said about what they said. jk ... It was beautiful, and I'm glad they were gifted some financial support, as they need it to keep these twins connected. No one was harmed in the making of this show, and I wish them all the best.
Nah, they decided to meet over there. They can choose not too. Bless them for sharing their moment. It's a happy event for everybody, I can't say for the people who just find faults in everything around them besides their own fault.
@@badassgenevideos they burst into tears, all this emotion from the depths of them came up when they were finally reunited with their twin who they spent 9 months with in the womb. And they only had about 10 seconds to savour and process the moment. It would have been much nicer and more natural for them to have had a real chance to savour and process that moment in privacy. It was probably one of the most important, beautiful and profound moments of their lives, and it was cut short by all the crazy media stuff..
I agree. That moment when the wall between them moved and they started crying, I thought they would embrace and cry for a long time, just savoring the moment being in each other's arms. I mean, look how they just burst into tears; the emotions just welled up! If I were there, I would leave them for a while and respect the significance of that moment instead of leading them suddenly to the couch for an interview.
I don’t get why people think that after 9 months in a womb you would be in any way connected to anyone. It’s chemical not psychological. Get your science straight.
@@louvretreekay12_ yea, there didn't appear to be any connection at all between them when they burst into tears and ran into each others arms. Could you not feel the realness and love within that moment? Of course there is a connection made within the womb!
@@Anikoxx Yes. It is very likely the US portion of the adoption did not know about the twins. I think China thinks it is easier to adopt out each separate. Also, they probably make more money as well.
actually.. I just find this disturbing.. and I'm not sure who I am most upset with.. GMA or the parents, for allowing such a raw and private moment between CHILDREN to happen for ratings... the story is touching, but do this in private and televise later if you have to... I mean goodness, these are little girls... you have to protect them somehow..
Sara English they weren't forced. also, they have face-timed and talked to each other before, so it wasn't like this was the first time they had ever seen the other. They were obviously very happy and didn't seem damaged to me.
lol she said disturbing! I scrolled down to see the emotional comments and disturbing was the last thing I thought would be here lol. I cried like a lil girl
Yep, sharing this loving and touching moment should be kept behind closed doors. Never should loved ones kiss in public. Never should a baby cry when they are in public. PFFT! We are the human race. Choosing to share the reunion with the world is proof positive that those who have been adopted or are still transitioning through a foster system can meet a loved one. Whether he or she is a sister, mother, brother, aunt, dad etc. they can see this joyous moment and know reunions are just empty dreams. But no. We should keep every reunion private. Trust me, those who have been through the system and finally do meet a loved one it a moment that you want to climb on top of a mountain and scream I found my ___________!!!!! Will the kids then tweet, instaslam, facebook and call all their friends to let them know this? Of course they will. protect them? Really? This is child abuse? Just remember this the next time you see the explosions in Syria or all the other bad news the midea latches on to. I say good job to GMA for sharing this moment. To the parents it is their choice to allow everyone to see their children unite. We ARE a community. The fact the this disturbs you disturbs me but also lets me know another side to this story. Thank you so much for showing a dissenting view. Without a dialogue we can't grow.
I lost my twin brother quite early. The feeling of not being compleet is all to familiar. I'm so incredibly grateful these 2 girls can now fill that emptiness with eachother again. No-one else can take the place of a twin and being without them is a feeling I will never be able to explain. This warms my heart. ❤
I get it. My best friend was my twin. We first met when we were 10. We were in the same fourth grade class and I had moved. We were always mistaken for each other, even at her memorial. She was my twin. We were close as sisters.
I get you❤.. I lost my twin as well, I feel like there’s always some sort of a void in me.. I try to fix it by doing my very best in life and try to live for two but it seems to be never enough..
It’s funny how the first set of parents said their daughter uses the word “overwhelming” a lot and then the other twin said “it’s overwhelming” I’m so happy they found each other. 🥺
I'm surprised they hugged right away. I would think that if they had never met before, they would be startled to be face to face with someone who looks just like you that you are told is so closely related to you. I expected them to not know what to do or say, and yet they hugged so closely immediately. That is a very heart tugging moment indeed. Twins really are a beautiful thing.
@Sheri H. True, but even then, I wouldn't feel drawn to hug any of the friends I've made and spoke with online. I'd need to spend time with them in person multiple times before I felt comfortable touching them that way. Discord video calls with people cannot replace a true connection of meeting face to face in person. But maybe that is just me as a grown woman, maybe kids are just more carefree and open to hugging people like that. XD
@@eyebleached That's true too, I was wondering if the show told them to hug and the girls weren't really comfortable with it but did it anyway because the show wanted them too.
In my own experience as an Adopted Child, meeting my Birth Mother for the 1st time at the age of 33. I can tell you, the immediately hugging & crying is 100% natural emotion , & I will never forget crossing the Park on that Sunny February Fremantle afternoon in 2006 & meeting my Mum Vicki. It has changed our lives forever & made us all the richer for it
This shouldn’t have been aired to millions and should have been a private one. However i am in floods of tears as a father of a 3 & 1 year old daughters. 😭 such a beautiful story!
Because they had already met virtually. This reunion was done with the families in consultation with a twin studies expert. They wanted to bring attention to the very obscure world of adoption agencies who will do things like separate twins without telling the adoptive parents or conceal health issues so as to facilitate adoption.
People need to quit telling others how they should feel. The show paid for them to meet (transportation, bonding activities to experience together, their meals etc)-things that the families would have had to consider doing it by their own means. The girls may or may not have been given a choice but at the end of the day, we don't know and there's no reason to suggest either of those circumstances over the other. So how about focusing on the positives instead of flooding this video with unneeded negativity.
@@ryanp4396 Would you mind if I played devil's advocate here? By your telling people that they need to stop telling people how to feel aren't you doing the same? (I'm asking for a friend).
Notice how the first girl's dad said she likes to describe the experience as overwhelming, then her twin sister comes in and uses the same word without knowing her sister does that too
Something about making a nationwide media production out of the traumatic separation and reuniting of adopted twin children doesn’t seem right to me...
@@Yukika04 wow you are racist. You are saying that all white people are the same. Go fuck yourself. You are a horrible person. You probably support Trump.
So glad these young ladies got to meet while they were still young. I was adopted and could not track my birth family down until I was in my fifties. They are so lucky,so happy for them.
There were twin brothers raised by different families both became accountants, married wives with same first name, named children with same name drove same kind of car.
They're worth more when they're sold separately. Adoption is human trafficking and it's people like these couples that create the demand that drives the industry.
Twins are usually placed in another category when it comes to adoption, because most people are only looking to adopt one healthy child. They separate twins to remove them from the category and make it easier for them to be adopted.
While those are nice suggestions, you're hoping child traffickers will act with compassion. People need adoption to be this warm fuzzy thing. If it isn't, we're forced to face the horrific loss of separating mother and child. We don't like to think about that. The adoption Industry could give a rip about what's best for kids. It's all about MONEY!
We chose to adopt from China to avoid any possibility of the birth parents contacting our children.We did not want to have contact with the birthparents, and in an United States adoption that is always a possibility.
they cried, no one would've cried to a long lost unidentical sibling they've never met. that's how you know they were connected! this truly made me shed a tear ❤
@@lolitaalagao7159 Multiples spend months in utero together, they know when the other is missing even from birth. Many twins liken the feeling to phantom limb syndrome.
@@lolitaalagao7159 I work with toddlers and having a pair of twins in my class they WILL feel pain being separated. Twins have a special connection and really care about eachother, there's no way they didn't suffer being separated.
I cried right along with them when that door opened! But I cried both happy and sad tears. Happy, joyful, elated that they are together and that both of them have such loving, intelligent parents who want this reunion to be the start of a new life for the girls. But I also cried sad tears that they had been separated between the ages of 1 and 2 and adopted to different families, with neither of those families being told that there was a twin as well. It should NEVER happen that twins, or even non-twin siblings should be split up for adoption. Whatever caused them to end up in foster care as babies is enough of a trauma to go through, but then to be sent to the other side of the world with a new family and grow up STILL not knowing their history, is just so unfair and I don't see how it cannot leave lasting trauma with these children. Just from how their parents talk and how they interact with their child and the other twin, I can't help thinking that one or both of those couples would have been more than happy to take both the girls at adoption time. I know that adoption agencies can't give adoptive parents the names and addresses of the biological parent(s), or ways to contact the bio parents, but in complex cases involving multiple siblings and especially twins, it doesn't seem fair that they keep that information secret. It's almost like the second twin is kept in another room while one is being adopted. Like they are hidden away like a bad secret. It just isn't right that these girls are only finding out after 10 years that they have a twin. And like the psychologist said, the twin bond is so strong, it's very likely these girls felt over the years that "something was missing" from their lives. I hope adoption agencies don't do this any more; I hope they look first for homes where two children would be welcomed.
is it just me or does it feel wrong this happened on tv? like they just met their twin after ten years of being separated & now they're being interviewed directly after? just feels wrong to me. give them some privacy
Same feel the same way. Like srsly thats like people coming into my room after starting to cry because of Stranger Things, then shoving a camera in my face and posting it on RU-vid.
So agreed. I don't get how nobody else seems to have thought more about that ... They are so much having an emotional and hard moment while everyone else is like "congrats lol". Even the mother on the left doesn't seem to measure the situation at all. When she said to the other twin "can I touch you ?" litteraly *seconds* after they were introduced ... I was like : "she's not an object !" ... jesus ...
The girls and their families had already been face timing over the internet. They just hadn't physically met. Keep in mind, there is a psychologist on set that has NO PROBLEM with them meeting like this. You probably shouldn't either. What you don't understand is that these are tears of JOY for the girls. Tears of joy are friggin fantastic. I'm sure you're not familiar with that emotion and I hope one day you can be. Then you'll understand that ANY time and ANY place is a good place to be reunited with your family. What's more fascinating however is that there is ALWAYS SOMEONE trying to create a problem where there is none. Always some fools looking to follow suit too. Nice try at ruining a beautiful moment a** holes. Now, back to your miserable lives with you!
@@JackalBlack You are a poor soul. One must not be a genius to understand that anything that is emotionally profound is not to be displayed on live TV, in front of an audience and especially if this concerns children. Having one psychologist on the set doesn't mean at all that this is right. Having that so called psychologist on the set only serves the purpose of this TV channel to have, actually, a backup in case of lawsuit, yeah. If they were tears of joy, which I hope, then they should have lived those in their intimacy, not forced to look in front of them and follow the TV set's rules. You are an idiot.
@@vahe1813 Where is that rule: That the emotionally profound should "ne're (never) be aired!" Nowhere. The emotionally profound is what makes TV and movies worth watching. It's what makes life worth living. Sounds like your making things up as you go. I know you would rather have all children stay in closed cells and communicate in controlled conditions but this isn't North Korea. This is Good Morning AMERICA! There is no school that teaches you that "no child should experience joy in public" (as YOU are trying to say). These are perhaps the rules imposed by your family or tradition? Those are rules for creating prisoners. Life happens in a world of 8 billion people. If you can only handle emotions in a box - then maybe you should go live in one. Maybe you do and that's why your so angry and selfish. Besides, those girls have a lifetime of private memories to create. Why shouldn't they commemorate their first meeting on TV? I would have been glad too and it sure looks like they all were too. Now they can re-live it forever. Now again, go back to your miserable life where you can daydream of imposing your foolish will on children everywhere. Not only did you not ruin these kids' day...you're definitely not gonna ruin mine. I'll be here happily waiting to continue making you look like you don't know what your talking about. Well, I'll be HELPING. You're already doing a pretty good job yourself! 😁👍😁
@@JackalBlack Ok. Yeah ... You're a perfect example of the brainwashed American : claims everything should be aired on TV, is rude and angry but frames the other one as such, can't handle moderate argumentation and thus relies on exagerrated and stereotypical claims, brings up nationalism anywhere. You're the definition of the " 'MURICA" internet joke. I know I won't change your mind and I don't care but I wanted to point that out if anyone else is to read these comments. I, actually, don't make things up as I go because I worked in TV industry and studied about media and media's impact on the society at the university. I pretty much know what I'm talking about. If someone wants to learn a bit more on what today's medias mean, I suggest you read books such as On Television by Pierre Bourdieu or The Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord. I don't think, to be honest, they experienced only joy. I believe it must have been tainted by sorrow and disarray. And even if not, would you air your wedding on camera or when you give birth ? They are moments that scream for intimacy. Unfortunately you only saw that event with the lens the TV show wanted you to have, which is a pity for you but shows how well they succeeded in their process. Now I won't respond anymore. Have a good day.
I am bawling❣️ Ok moms and dads, time to move closer together! They absolutely NEED each other for the rest of their lives and I am thankful they are reunited. I imagine they have a beautiful journey ahead of them.
Meagan Cassey Well, when your adopted daughter finds her twin, you can do it any way you want. This is how they choose to do it. #whothehellaskedyouyouropinion
They obviously wanted to do it. They were in contact already, facetiming and such. It was the first time being in physical contact, but they were fully aware that this was going to be in public view. So you being upset, while endearing, is actually misplaced empathy for pain they did not experience.
I’m not sure how the parents are not bawling their eyeballs out but I have not been able to stop. I can’t imagine what they’re feeling right now, and I hope that they have a long amazing life with each other.
Quite sneaky of her. But to be able to see two twins who grew up separated have the exact same body mechanics and personality quirks was very fascinating.
That’s funny you say this. I was thinking while I saw them crying, “this feels like I am invading a private moment” they should have met without cameras and a crowd, more so people asking questions when they should be asking questions to each other
Their first meeting shouldn't of been in front of a screaming audience of strangers it really should of happened in a quiet place just the two of them.
@@CHARITYFIPPS No it is not. I would never meet my birth siblings for the first time in front of strangers. That is an experience to have in private for the spectrum of emotions involved.
I agree, but they were adopted from China. China's adoption laws are very different from US. I'm actually surprised that Audrey's mother was able to get background information on the girls being twins, because China doesn't allow background information about where the children come from when adopted.
@Cutie Cat I don't think it's right to separate siblings, but not every couple or parent adopting can take all siblings. Also, I suggest reading more into adopting from China. www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/opinion/01iht-edrussell.html awaa.org/adopt/adoption-programs/china/requirements
I have a twin brother, he is my best-friend, noone can break the bond of twins no matter what,. I got married and moved to other country to be with my husband, but of all my siblings, my twin is the only one communicating with me. i miss my twin.
I think that should have met in privacy because it is so personal thing to realise you have a twin sister you didnt know before. But after all this video is so dramatic and exciting.
This felt like such an intrusion on such a beautiful moment. This did not have to be a TV moment. I’m sad that they had to share this moment with the world, but I’m thrilled they found each other.
Being pessimistic about it is one way to view it. Another way is they've been given the ability to spread awareness about lost siblings especially since the routes they used were discussed on the show. Besides they've been face timing and having regular phone conversations before this.
I disagree. We need more moments like this rather than the terrible, negative, polarizing news they show now. Also they weren’t forced to come on the show and clearly had chatted beforehand. We should be grateful to them for choosing to share it.
To me, what is lacking in recent years for a lot of people around the world is hope. This kind of feel-good story should tell everyone, adults and children, that there is always hope.
True but they sort of clarified that they met on skype and prepared first, This was not super shocker first time hearing eachother and knowing eachother, This was their first IN PERSON meeting, But yeah.. Totally get it.
Lmao, they said the first sister likes to use the word "overwhelming", and the first thing that the other sister says is "it's very overwhelming". That's a strong connection!
Tv is often scripted to create more feels from watchers. But i think its because the black dude said the word just a few seconds before so she just copied what he said.
Ivanna O'Sullivan people can't always take care of two kids. It would be even more horrible to leave them in the orphanage until someone have enough money came along to adopt the two of them.
i didn't expect to actually cry but the moment they met each other's eyes and cried, i just couldn't hold back tears and they just fell so hard like dmn 😭😭
Right!? They’re still in the moment and you have a live audience and the interviewers acting like their at a basketball game after the final buzzer. Smh
It's ruff being seperated and being able to just meet him everytime when i'm infront of a mirror is the best feelings you can possibly get in the world
Umm no one has said this but don't you think they'd want to see each other every day now? I think its just a matter of time when one of families moves to the neighborhood of the others.. don't ya'll agree?
HOW DID THEY NOT PICK ON THE FACT THAT THE OTHER TWIN SAID "OVERWHELMING", AFTER THE FIRST GIRL SAID HER FAVOURITE TO DESCRIBE THIS ALL IS OVERWHELMING!?!?!? Twins are fascinating.
Tv is often scripted to create more feels for the watcher but in this case I think its because the guy just said the word a few seconds before she did.
DrJayPlays That came to my mind too...but I think the guy said it first....and the other family were just listening behind that sliding door on the stage...and I thought she just have to say the same word when she was asked bcoz for her it’s just the exact word to describe it.
I'm adopted and used to daydream about having a twin sister out there somewhere. When I was 21 I didn't find a twin but I did find my full younger sister and brother. This reunion brought back so many memories as well as tears!
This is genuine human emotion. I dont think there is any explanation to this. Someone you never bonded with your whole life and you still cried for them
