Too close for comfort but not incest. I'm glad they didn't really go there though. Granted if the show was on the air now it probably would since most shows nowadays are too focused on "shipping" Hence the show on ABC Family called The Fosters wasted no time with setting up a potential relationship between the foster brother and sister.
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Remember Cruel Intentions? Kathryn and Sebastian were step siblings and it was considered incest and everyone was shocked over that situation whether approving or disapproving, they were surprised someone had the balls to put a hint of incest in a movie.
I know there are people that will deny it or disagree but to me there did seem to be incest moments in the show. JT and Dana seemed to have a love hate relationship. People do consider a relationship even between step siblings or step cousins incest. People consider the stuff with Cody incest. I never considered it incest, but most people I've spoken to seem to disagree. When I said about liking Dana and JT together, I was met with funny looks because even though they weren't related, over the course of the show they were supposed to be a family and treat each other as brother and sister since their families were now merged. I think that if they aren't blood related it shouldn't be a big deal.
To others that were saying Cody treted Karen and Dana the same way-
Cody did like Dana. He didn't treat her the same as Karen. It was different with Dana. Especially in the earlier seasons, he woudl always flirt with Dana and act like they were going out and say he was in love with her. He didn't do that with Karen.
Yes ABC had balls back then. Then again I'd say it was pretty ballsy to put a show like Pretty Little Liars on ABC family too. A show about bullying going to far, manipulation, rape, young girls being stalked and murdered-that's really ballsy.

No it would not be incest since they are not related. Same goes with the Brady Bunch just b/c two Ppl get remarried does not make them related to each other so The Lambert's could had banged The Fosters on this show also The Brady's could had banged The Martin's Carol's 1st married name.

Ummm NO, they are not related in any way, so it's not incest. Even step brother and sister is not incest because they are NOT related. Blood relation is the only way it can be incest.

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They were not biologically related. He is Frank's nephew. She is Carol's daughter. Frank was her stepfather.

Good. So I'm not crazy then. I always thought JT and Dana had a thing for each other too.
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I always thought that Dana and JT had a thing for each other. Even though they always picked on one another. I always felt that they had a secret crush on each other.

its not even againt the law to marry your cousin inthe uk now so step realtions is irrelevant
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Yeah they sure did I remember that episode.
Its not incest to me, Cody and Dana aren't even related.

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It was always weird, and he was too old for her.

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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whocares if they are related or not, hell even if they ARE related by blood and the characters are brother and sister whocares
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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)
and INCEST is your biggest problem? big whoop

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.

^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

When they met, Cody was early twenties and Dana was late teens. There's absolutely nothing weird about that. Besides him living in her driveway.

Its definitely weird but I think thats why they changed it(Cody's attraction to Dana) after the first season.
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i would think it would b weird too. i mean yes it is not blood, but you could never be exclusive with it, your families would disown you

Guess you've never watched the last season of Dexter

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.

It's Wisconsin step relatives is legal

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.

No not really. It was all your imagination.