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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (18225)3/13/1998 10:43:00 AM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
So how do you explain the fact that someone (my mother or me, perhaps both) can be thrown in jail for having sex with my sisters or mother? I might be mistaken, but I believe incest laws are enforced. I believe my mother would be prosecuted by the State if it came to the State's attention that she was having sex with her adult sons. I could be mistaken.

I believe incest is illegal in most states. There was an interesting test case in the early '80s. Two children, a sister and brother, had been separated and put up for adoption when the girl was three and the boy an infant. As they grew up, their adoptive families didn't tell them about each other, but the girl vaguely recalled having had a brother. As an adult in her 20s she sought him out. They fell in love and decided to marry. This caused quite an uproar, though I doubt they were in fact prohibited from doing so because, as a result of the adoptions, in the legal sense they were not related. They insisted that this was what they wanted to do, and promised to have themselves sterilized so that there'd be no question of them passing on hereditary health problems.

I only read one article about this; don't know what happened in the end.
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