A Great Lakes area 18-year-old said that she and her father plan to move to New Jersey after their wedding because adult incest is legal in this state. The girl’s mother became pregnant with her on her prom night. When she was born, the mother had a nervous breakdown, which created strain within the family and with the birth father. This led to the mother and father having a difficult arrangement with visitation rights and eventually, when the unnamed girl was around five years old, she and her father became estranged. Years later, she attempted to find her father through Facebook. She found him, and they began talking and having a relationship. She admits that she started having feelings for him and at age sixteen they began to have a romantic relationship. Reportedly she originally had conflicted feelings about their relationship, but eventually, her attraction outweighed her concerns. The girl states that the two plan to have children after they are married, which would make her half sibling to her own child, and the father a grandfather to his son. The couple is not worried about any potential birth defects due to the genetics being too similar; she says, “Everybody thinks that kids born in incestuous relationships will definitely have genetic problems, but that’s not true,” she explains.
“That happens when there’s years of inbreeding, like with the royal family. Incest has been around as long as humans have” (foxnews.com). She also says that their children will never know of their incestuous origin. Her mother’s side of the family sees the two as father and daughter and is not accepting of the couple. The father’s side, however, says they can’t wait for them to have children and treat them like any other couple. The relationship is causing uproar. What is your opinion?