Incest
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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
I don't see an issue. [step] Cousins is even less an issue. -
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. -
michelleod1 — 12 years ago(November 27, 2013 05:22 PM)
^haha i agree with that. I always liked the actors chemistry. but tv shows really had balls back then lol!
i'm watching this new show called "the Fosters" & it's about a foster home & these two lesbians take in foster kids and they take in this girl who was in Juvie & their foster son (whose been with them for like his whole childhood) starts to like the new girl & the new girl starts to like him. People have been calling THAT incest, which is just dumb because they're not even related lol -
AnyaAngel22 — 11 years ago(July 19, 2014 09:32 PM)
I also think that it wouldn't be weird because they didn't grow up together. Cody was in his late teens-early twenties when he met Dana, and she was around 16 or 17. That does make her jailbait though.
If any of you watched Teen Mom, there was an actual situation like this. The girl and guy were dating for awhile(I think a few years), and I can't remember if it was before she was pregnant or after, but her mother married her boyfriend's father, making them step-siblings that had a child together. -
astro_5000 — 11 years ago(March 24, 2015 03:10 AM)
whocares if they are related or not, hell even if they ARE related by blood and the characters are brother and sister whocares
no one likes a
incsetPHOBE bigot
hell morons except homos into society and they a) selfishly end the family bloodline b) we now manufacture babies for them c) studies have linked aids to them (however most cultures have known about this for years)
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simba122504 — 12 years ago(February 25, 2014 09:02 PM)
No. It's not incest in anyway. Dana sleeping with Mark would be incest.
They were related by marriage, not by blood. If Carol and Frank ended their marriage, Cody isn't related to Dana at all.
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