A mother's fling has resulted in her bearing twins --- by different fathers. 11-month-old Justin and Jordan Washington may have arrived in the world within just seven minutes of each other but, in an amazing twist of fate, they are half-brothers. Each has a different dad because their mum Mia Washington had an affair and conceived the fraternal twins by different men at the same time. One of the boys belongs to her partner James Harrison while the other is fathered by another man , whose identity is yet to be released.
The truth came out when Mia took the twins for a paternity test after noticing they have different facial features.
According to doctors,if a woman has more than one sexual partner during her fertile period,there is a minuscule chance that two sperm cells from different men can fertilize two separate eggs.
See http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30864533/ns/today-parenting_and_family/t/mother-gives-birth-twins-different-dads/ ; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378184/Woman-discovers-twins-sons-DIFFERENT-fathers-The-Maury-Show.html ; http://multiples.about.com/od/funfacts/a/Heteropaternal.html .
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