Q217 - Q6: Would you swap your child?
Do people generally prefer to bring up their own biological children? Yes. Is being raised by non-biological parents terrible? No. There - that's saved you six minutes!
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I personally would not want to "exchange" the baby, after having spent a year caring for and nurturing the baby. If, however, the baby was riddled with heath and development difficulties, I would be quite angry that the hospital made such a mistake. I think that at that point if I were to see my actual baby and saw that it was perfect and free of any of the problems that the one I was raising has, I might be even more angry. So I think I'm the interest of civility and forgiveness, I would opt to not become acquainted with the real baby and family that is raising him or her. But I suspect that the other family, if so informed, may want to see "their" child. I don't know how that could be prevented if you desired to not participate.