RE: Mother and son in New Mexico face jail time for incestuous relationship
August 11, 2016 at 5:11 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2016 at 5:12 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 11, 2016 at 4:44 am)paulpablo Wrote:(August 11, 2016 at 2:54 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Not necessarily. What if she gave him up for adoption because she hadn't the means to provide for him? Is that "failed parenting", or a wise choice made by putting the child's needs first?
Failing to provide for your children is failed parenting, it might not necessarily be the persons fault, maybe failed parenting might be the wrong way to put it since there's no parenting involved, she decided to not be a parent possibly for valid reasons I don't know, then decided to have sex with her son.
Yeah, I don't think "failed parenting" covers the possibilities when she's given the son up for adoption, because she wasn't in fact a parent. Being a parent goes beyond bloodlines; the parenting was done by the adopting parents, not the incestuous mother. She was at most an egg donor and incubator, right?
As Losty and others have pointed out, much of the incest taboo is not purely genetic -- or at least not triggered in that manner. It's triggered by close proximity in formative years, I think. When you're growing up, anyone in your household is so close to you that the idea of reducing the relationship to sex is abhorrent to most folk. That's only my own opinion, and I have *zero* data to back it up, so take it or leave it as it stands, we're cool.
