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I met a friend today who said that her whole family had become fragmented because two members of her extended family ( who are siblings) were in an incestuous relationship. This is obviously very much a social taboo.
However, I know that some people think it is ok for cousins to get together and others see that as abnormal.
It made me think about where do people draw the line?
However, I know that some people think it is ok for cousins to get together and others see that as abnormal.
It made me think about where do people draw the line?
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It can be argued that we are all related to each other, but I guess you mean a close relation.
Yeah. And I wouldn't judge people for doing it, crack on and have fun lol, just not for me.
No problem with cousins getting together personally although the issue is that there can be a greater risk of abnormalities in any offspring, particularly if there is a history within the family of cousins marrying cousins over several generations.
Anything more than that I can't get my head round. That said I know there is a psychological phenomenon where close family members separated at birth e.g. siblings and parent/child can become sexually attracted to each other when they meet adults.
It's not for me either and my sister/wife agrees with me.
Lol! That made me laugh even though
When Mandy Smith was married to Bill Wyman, wasn't his son dating her mother? Must have made for bracing Christmas get-togethers. If the second couple had had a baby (which they didn't), Mandy Smith would have been its grandmother and half-sister.
The Wuthering Heights family tree gives a disturbing perception that the total population of the world is about 10 people: http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/images/trees/genealogyplan.jpg
I also think with all the ways we split families and make step families and sperm and egg donation etc it will become more and more difficult to be sure who is related to whom to social norms will change anyway.
I personally wouldn't define step relatives as incest. However many people (inc. in the west) and several cultures disagree. Unfortunately yours (and my) definition isn't the universally accepted one.
Lack of imagination - laziness - incestuously minded, that's all that will have you - there are lots of reasons for incest. And many many more for not doing it. However there are always people that disagree so a subsection of people are going to do this just like there will always be a subsection of other freaky people.
In the home were the Father, Mother, Daughter and Son. There was also the granddaughter (who was conceived by the Father and the daughter), and she had a child which had been conceived by herself and her uncle. The uncle and the granddaughter would openly walk around together with their kid, and even visit local pubs for a drink.
The baby would have been both the granddaughter and great granddaughter of the father and mother. The granddaughter was the father's daughter and grandaughter. etc.
The whole lot of them were very clearly unashamed of what they were.
Goodness. Trying to unpick all that has just given me a headache!!