"Separated" twins - how to?

[eric.vanbeest]

I am probably over-thinking this, but hear me out:

I have a lady who gave birth, out of wedlock, to twins A (boy) and B (girl). shortly after, she married and the husband, C, acknowledged A to be his son. B, however, died before the wedding, so she was never acknowledged to be C's daughter.

I record children who are born before a couple have wed to be their regular children (Child Status: Legitimised, if that did indeed occur) and yes Reunion does complain that they were born before the Marriage occurred but we can ignore that. Children not acknowledged by a father I keep attached as a child of only the mother (with no partner), even if the child was never legally acknowledged by the mother.

This is a split case, though, and although I can record B as being merely the child of the mother, and B the eventual child of the mother of of C, it would not be readily visible that A and B were twins.

As I say, am I overthinking this?

[George R]

Hi, if I was to write this up and I found or learned that Husband C had acknowledged that A was his son then I would record A to be the son of the wife and Husband C. [adding in notes that Husband C had claimed post birth that A was his son.] Now i'm no medical expert but twins... I would say that daughter B would also have to be recorded as Daughter to Husband C. Based on the fact that he claimed child A to be his son.
In very very rare cases can a set of twins could have two fathers, but it would require extreme probability's i.e two eggs released at the same time, intercourse with two separate males within hours, biology at work...etc
in short so rare its not countable.
Hope this helps