Father and daughter expect child together

My name is URL wrote: »

Yes.. why not?

You just don't hear very many people calling for that, do you? But everyone gets pretty worked up about incest

Where do you draw the line on that BTW? Family history is a good predictor of some cancers and heart disease, do we extend this policy to that as well?

I call BS on this one, this is a money spinner imo. Would anyone honestly go and tell their story to the world as if they were proud of their incest?

what struck me - lets assume the GSA is a reeality or like has been suggested: we develop a sort of mental block to family.
You might understand it happening if eg. 2 siblings randomly meet - assuming they are strangers. and theres an attraction there, they start a relationship and then somehow find out the truth.
but this girl sought out her dad. she knew she was meeting her dad - someone she's closely related to. i assume she told him up front who she was.

Sonics2k wrote: »

Do some basic research on genetic issues caused by incestuous relationships and any children born from it.
There is always a chance that physically, or mentally, there will be no direct results, however there is an increased chance.

However, in the long term, the mental results can be quite traumatic. Imagine this child growing up with people in the knowledge his parents are Father and Daughter, it is highly likely to have a huge negative impact on his/her life.

p.s.
keep taking shots son, but you're doing it wrong.

The premise is two closely related human beings (e.g. a brother and sister) will share a similar genome. As everyone has a mixture of benign, advantageous and undesirable genes, it's a good idea to mix your genes about so you don't get two copies of the same bad gene and become homozygous for a bad recessive trait.

There seems to be a misconception amongst the general public that one instance of inbreeding will produce a child with 3 heads. Problems with inbreeding are seen in small populations where there is repeated inbreeding across generations e.g. galactosemia in Irish Travellers. As usual you have to take every idiot on boards' posts with a pinch of salt but i think it's important for the uninformed to keep their opinions to themselves.

Dave! wrote: »

hmmm, but then what about two unrelated people who get together, but one of them has a hereditary medical condition which is likely to be passed onto any offspring?

I'm not sure what birth defects tend to result from incest, whether they're just cosmetic, or debilitating, or what. But for example haemophilia is hereditary, and I think autism has a large genetic component too, so you could have a child, knowing that their risk of these disorders is increased.

So if we're being consistent, shouldn't we want these people to avoid reproduction too?

</devil's advocate>

The difference in that case is that only one of the couple has the hereditary condition. If they want to reproduce at all they'll have to take the risk of passing it on. This couple just have to avoid having a child together to avoid any risk. They can have children with other people if they choose.

I don't see a problem with them having sex. It makes me wonder though that if having sex and harming nobody is fine for them, why is bestiality with the human at the receiving end a crime? (Getting a bit grossed out by the subjest tbh)

Dodgy having a child all right - they say they'll terminate if defects show, but what if defects don't show until after the point that an abortion can be carried out?
Otherwise though, meh, so what? What harm are they doing to anyone? No really, it's weird and not easy for some to deal with as it's outside of what they feel is the ideal way, but they can ignore?
This genetic attraction thing - meh, they're two people who met and became attracted to each other. A switch doesn't just come on deterring them from each other because they're related. They were strangers to each other when they met.

robwen wrote: »

sick bastards jail is to good for them they`d enjoy the rape too much in there, they should be just killed & removed from this earth just like the peadophiles

Hahahahahahahahahaha...

slarkin123 wrote: »

I'm not shocked about this, it seems to be becoming a frequent thing. I am shocked that there is a name for it and its recognized as a disease.

No it isn't.

Ev84 wrote: »

"Meh, So what?". "What harm are they doing?". You're joking right? WHAT ABOUT THE POOR BABY THAT IS NOT EVEN BORN YET!!!! What kind of way do you think he/she will react the day he/she finds out about how he/she was conceived? Family history? Or the torment he/she will have to endure as a child if anyone in school ever finds out? Normal people in Penny Lawrence's position are supposed to feel anger at their dad who left their mother while she was pregnant, Not lust! And the father is supposed to feel guilt and regret for leaving his daughter without a father for her whole life (I say "whole life" because he is still not a father to her now)... Not impregnate her!

Even if the baby is born with no physical defects there is still the chance of serious mental problems down the line in trying to cope with such a life. It is completely f**ked up tbh and so is the way you find it so easy to deal with and seem to understand their actions. That poor unborn baby's life is f**ked from day one. pffft "what harm" you say...

You must have missed the part where I said I don't agree with them having a baby - after that I meant if there was no baby.

It should. And if it doesn't, There is obviously something wrong with you.

Based on? You can't help attraction - their crime is acting on it. It is easy for anyone who hasn't been in the situation to think "Jesus if I met someone and fancied them like mad and then realised they were closely related to me, I'd just suddenly lose attraction to them" but that's not taking into account the complexities of the human condition.
It's weird, I'm assuming I wouldn't do it, but in the cases of those who don't have children, who are they harming? Why would they go ahead and have such a taboo relationship if they didn't really want to, especially in the face of such objection? Although I agree with someone else: don't see why they felt the need to go public.

They were not strangers to each each other, they just never seen each other before. They both knew of each others existence, She tracked him down ffs.

Still strangers in the sense of having never met, and not knowing they would be attracted to each other when they met.
I'm not championing this, I'm just aware that things aren't always straightforward and I always end up mulling over things that are not the norm and less than ideal, rather than leaping to outraged mode.
Imprisoning them for incest - what they do in the privacy of their own home... now that would be fucked up.