Incest
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alicia-angel92 — 16 years ago(August 28, 2009 06:34 PM)
Haha I always wondered that too! Since they ARE family - blood related or not - but at least they never actually dated or anything, since Dana hated him.
[Marcia and Charlie kiss]
Charlie:"Marcia I gotta gosomething suddenly came up!"
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deem714 — 16 years ago(August 31, 2009 10:11 AM)
I didn't thinks so: He treated Karen similarly Kare-Bear and the Dana-burger I think he just liked hanging out with kids near his own age and secretly liked being the voice of reason (ironically, since Dana thought she was the be all and end all)
and just "like-liking someone" doesn't make you incentious acting on it, does. (Arrested Development's George Michael had a crush on his cousin Maybe although god knows why)
You're laborers, you're supposed to be laboring! That's what you get for not having an education!! -
DarknessAngel — 16 years ago(January 21, 2010 11:14 AM)
Yes but it still seems strange. Real incest is when you're blood-related, yes, but it still seems weird for step-siblings or step-cousins to date. I have a step-brother who I'm not blood-related with, but I would never dream of going out with him. Of course, I've never had any kind of desire to do so, but it still seems close to incest, especially if you have grown up together as siblings.
Technically, a sibling added to a family through adoption is not blood-related to a perhaps already-existing child in the family, and in that case they could therefore become a couple when they get older. Although I think this still seems very much like incest, even if it may not be blood-related.
But I don't think there is any kind of incest in "Step by Step". Cody is not acting upon his feelings, and being so "goofy", it's a little difficult to know exactly how he feels, and if he really does have such a big crush on Dana. And, of course, I think it's worse if non-blood-related step-siblings become a couple, than if step-cousins do. -
master130686 — 15 years ago(September 17, 2010 12:48 AM)
So you're saying that this is weird if step-whatever are a couple - I partly agree.
The part I disagree is that IF it "is" weird, it is only weird (or at least should be - and I don't mean that it should be at all and always, I just mean the situation itself, without the pre-defined opinion of our society/culture) for the couple - it shouldn't matter what other people think (unless it's against the law, of course).
But what if a there's a couple (in this case Dana & JT or Dana & Cody) and their parent (or other close relatives) marry. They would be step-whatevers, but they were together (maybe even long) before that.
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sandrasguy — 15 years ago(February 09, 2011 11:31 PM)
Take three kids, at different stages of puberty, mix them with two kids into puberty, and one about to enter puberty, and what do you have ? You have a lot of raging hormones. Surely, one of the boys would've become curious about a sister-only related by marriage. Also, with six kids (and how many bathrooms ?) there would've been a point where one of the girls would forget to lock a bathroom door, leave a bedroom door open, or she walks out of a room only half dressed.
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rooseveltfranklin1982 — 15 years ago(March 10, 2011 04:53 AM)
I think the writers also figured out this was a bad idea, that's why the concept of Cody liking Dana was dropped after Season 1, although he still annoyed her, and instead of unrequited love, it was like a situation of unrequited friendship.
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Jupiter555555 — 10 years ago(June 09, 2015 02:34 PM)
I've never had steps, but never understood why steps were considered incest in the court of public opinion. I can see your point if they've grown up as siblings from a very young age but if their parents didn't marry until they were in high school or college, go for it
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faithish — 12 years ago(January 15, 2014 08:26 AM)
Pretty sure it's legal everywhere - the whole reason why there are laws against incest is because potential offspring of parents who are related by blood stand a far greater chance of having birth defects and other genetic problems. If step-siblings or cousins married and had a child together, there's no genetic material being shared, so there's no greater danger of the child having any kind of birth defects than there would be with any other couple.
While I don't think it's very common, I don't think there's anything wrong with step-cousins or even step-siblings dating. I assume the reason it doesn't happen more often is because the people involved are told to regard their stepfamilies as family, so thinking of someone as a "brother," for instance, in any other way, even if he's not blood, feels odd. As a previous poster mentioned, there were a whole lotta hormones running wild in that house, so one of them developing a crush on one of the others was bound to happen. Since it's a situation that some people might regard as a little odd, it was probably wise of the show to drop the idea, but it's certainly not incest from a legal or medical standpoint, and I personally wouldn't see it that way.
If you want to talk about incest, just look at the British royal family (or pretty much any royal family, for that matter) - it was only within the last generation or so that they even started marrying outside their own bloodline. Even Charles and Diana were distant cousins. Not biologically close enough for there to be a concern for their children, but still related.
