Incest

There’s a court battle going on in Germany about a brother and sister who fell in love. They were separated at birth by adoption and only met for the first time after the brother searched for his birth mother and ended up meeting his sister and fell in love with her. In Germany it is against the law to have sex with a sibling and has been since the days of the Nazi party. The first time I read this I thought what many of you must be thinking.. that’s weird and it’s against the law because of the tragedies that can occur with any children from the relationship.

This relationship has 4 children. All four have been taken away from the couple and the first two have physical and mental birth defects but nobody can say whether it’s the incest factor or not.

They don’t feel like brother and sister because they didn’t know each other until they were both adults. They have no sibling memories at all.

The more I read about it, I wanted to know more about what’s legal and what isn’t. Did you know that incest is NOT ILLEGAL in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Turkey, Japan and Argentina. This really made me sit back and say, “hmmmm,” for a long time. Why isn’t it? There is only a 50% chance that children from a brother and sister will be normal. That’s enough for me to think it should be illegal, regardless whether they are madly in love or not.

My sympathy is certainly with them. It’s obvious that they love each other very much. The brother has spent two 2-year jail terms for violating the anti-incest law in Germany. While I sympathize with them, I can’t agree that what they’re doing is morally right.