could you recognize your parents or your child if you never knew them?

I think in some instances you can recognize parents but I am not so sure about children. I think they would recognize you before you did them. Thinking about my mom. I am relatively certain I would recognize her but then I knew her for my entire life. I would wonder if it were a situation where you had never know the person. I think it would be rare but it could happen.

not a chance I remember a case where 2 twin girls were adopted by different families and ended up living with in a few blocks of each other, people would often tell them how much they looked alike and they were friends - but didn't realize they could be related until they both discovered they were adopted from the same place and investigated.

After loosing my 3 boys I looked every where to seeif I could reconize any thing in people I met that I would think they were mine! Never did see it any where as all the states I moved around in. never knew where adopted parents could move too. The oldest one I think I would have reconized if I had seen him for he looks just like his dad did at that age. Aslo found out that he could have been living around the block from where we did one year. The other 2 not sure I would have reaconized them as it took me several years to reaconize that my 2nd son favors his grandpa on my side he just isnt fat! but the face with glasses and hiar line gets to me. The 3rd on no way would I have reconized . HE was real blonde headed, wide wide shoulders and tall.

hi winterrose you know this would make a wonderful story, a novel oh my love the idea. I think if for whatever reason my son may have been separated from me until he was twenty I would know he was my son the moment I saw him. once in our neighborhood store he was at a check stand and the clerk saw me hurrying over,and she said to me, oh my this young man has to be your son,he looks so much like you. I have heard that from the time he was about ten that he looks like me instead of his dad, although his eyes are brown like his dads were and his hair is so dark brown its almost black like his dad's was. I have pale ash blonde hair. but my sons face resembles mine so I would recognize him. If I had been seperated from my mom at an early age I think again I would recognize her when I met her as we always had movements so alike it was scary. so if I watched this woman I had not seen for years and saw her doing the same things I did I think I would go oh myh that woman is my mother. but this is all supposing of course.

I suppose it would depend on how much you resembled each other and how much time you spent together. There are people who worked in the same place or lived in the same neighborhood or shared the same circle of friends who later in life found out they were related that never considered that fact but others would mention similarirties.

Yes I think so, because both my mom and dad have lots of resemblances to me. My mom says I look exactly like what she looked like when she young, and we have the same nose, mouth, and teeth. Me and my dad have the same eyes and other resemblances. Both sides of my family have very distinct resemblances, and when you look at a family photo you can tell right away everyone is related.

Since this is a hypothetical question so obviously you understand that I have no such experience but from all practical experience, I guess I would not recognize my parents or my own child if I did not see them before and suddenly come across them as an adult or as an old person. Believe me , my son is now 10yrs and I cant even recollect properly how exactly he looked in his infancy…their faces change so much and so fast that its really not possible to identify that same baby as my own years later. And with regards to parents, well it’s the same…both my dad and mom looked quite different in their youth than they do now. Its but natural that people will change and if we are not on regular connection then no, I would not recognize them.

I do not think, it is possible to recognize your parents or your children if I have, never seen them. Maybe if I try very hard then I may be able to recognize them with somebodys help, other wise it is not possible. I have heard of brothers and sisters marrying, and later on finding out that they are long last brothers and sisters.

Hello winterose I could reply you this topic but I can't say fully because we have our own version of saying it...a sort of a term we used in our own dialect...this is a nice topic to discuss with but sad to say, I could not really share what I had in me because I am afraid I could not be understood by the majority... mobhomeir..

Ya that would be easy with my sixth sense and my DNA recongnizing eyes.

This is a very interesting premise, winterose. I would assume that those who believe in reincarnation would have a much different view than others. I know you have started your discussion with the context of familial separations, and I think it could go even deeper than that. Here's an instance for you....When I was in college I was at work one day (I was a sound engineer at a recording studio that tourists could come in and sing along to a track that I recorded for them as a souvenir)....in walks this woman. We took one look at each other and started crying. I'm no flake or anything. Both of us. Bawling like babies. It was weird....one of those other-wordly experiences that just happened. I KNEW her. She knew me. We were complete strangers and both bawling like babies. We were both perplexed by it. The strength of the emotions that we were encountering. So, we did a "past life regression" and discovered that we were "tribal brothers".. Cherokee to be precise....brothers. It explained the connection. It explained the emotion. And we KNEW when we saw each other....

I believe that I would be drawn to the person that I was related to in a certain sense. I may not know right away why I was drawn to that person, but there would be something about them that would make me feel a sort of connection to them. This is much the same as it is when you run into someone that you've known in your past that you haven't seen in a long time. You know that you know the person from somewhere but you just can't place them for a while.

I guess there will be an spark or something that will recognize a parent for their child. I mean,if a parent didnt know that's his child but he feels comfortable or at ease with that person especially if he knows that his child is with that same age, that would be a good start to know if that is his child and vice versa.

I definitely think I would be able to recognize my parents if I had never met them. There's a lot of resemblance between my parents and I physically and also the way we act. For example I have never seen anyone roll their eyes the way people in my family do. Also the way my parents talk would definitely catch my attention, and other small things like the way they would twiddle there thumbs or their sarcasm. All in all I think i'd be able to recognize them instantaneously.

With my vision, I odn't think so. It took me a lot of years of living with my mother or sister before I could see how we all looked alike. On the other hand, I've seen people who look exactly like someone I know, yet they are not at all related to that person. Personally, I don't think I could.

I guess that there is a huge possibility that you will feel something strange but obviously you cannot recognize what that feeling is. Blood instinct as they say... but because of the fact that you dont know each other and that you just meet from somewhere, it is hard to recognize the feelings that you have.