Sisters, separated as infants, discover each other at track meet (1 Viewer)

[TheDeparted]

It's like a real-life parent trap. Without the shenanigans. Or the identical twinliness. Maybe the show Sister, Sister.

They have the same shoe size, same double-jointed thumbs and similar-sounding voices. So it shouldn't be a big surprise that Jordan Dickerson and Robin Jeter had the same mother — except it took them more than 17 years to find out.

The girls, born about nine months apart, have lived their lives in the same city — Washington, D.C. — attended schools just minutes apart and played some of the same sports. But it wasn't until Jan. 9, when they crossed paths at a high school track meet, that they discovered they were sisters.

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Since the discovery, the sisters have been playing catch-up, visiting each other practically every weekend.

The chance reunion almost never happened. Jordan said she only tried out for the track team to stay in shape.

Sisters separated as infants reunited at track meet

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...n-robin-jeter_n_3274797.html#slide=more234413

 

[BarBar]

Wow. Great story. They really look a lot alike.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

born about 9 months apart
yikes

 

[Dragon]

As a foster mother I really don't understand why the system ( here as well as in the US apparently) don't put more emphasis on sibling relationships when putting kids in foster care or adopting them out.

The kids may have lost their parents or the parents may not be fit to raise them, but there is absolutely no reason why they should lose their siblings as well. I understand some adoptive parents wants a clean break but is that in the best interests of the parents or of the child they are adopting ?

 

[krushing]

As a foster mother I really don't understand why the system ( here as well as in the US apparently) don't put more emphasis on sibling relationships when putting kids in foster care or adopting them out.

The kids may have lost their parents or the parents may not be fit to raise them, but there is absolutely no reason why they should lose their siblings as well. I understand some adoptive parents wants a clean break but is that in the best interests of the parents or of the child they are adopting ?

The system doesn't put as much emphasis on sibling relationships because the system is completely overwhelmed by too many terrible parents. I am friends with a foster family who bend over backwards to help "the system". It's unreal how many children are coming into the system just because of meth addicted parents. The system is just being overwhelmed and their primary emphasis is to get children out of the overcrowded shelters and into a "decent" home setting. Many foster families just aren't set up to be able to take multiple children. Some families have 5-6kids removed at once. It's overwhelming. For every kid a fister family takes there's 10 more in the shelter looking for a home. If DHS waited for a family to take all siblings, many kids would never leave the shelter. The government and volunteers can't make up for the terrible parenting epidemic.

 

[TheDeparted]

From the Huffington Post article:

They are just two of several separated brothers and sisters, four of whom have been found.

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As Dickerson and Jeter continue the search for their other siblings, they spend every weekend with each other looking at old photos and making up for lost time.