And it’s not on some freaky porn site. (sorry to all those disappointed).
That in and of itself is surprising, but this news story is still a bit strange.
Are Europeans that much more liberal? Are the US anti gay-marriage people going to jump all over this?
While they’re petitioning the court to get married, they ought to request to change their names while they’re at it… to Siegmund and Sieglinde, perhaps.
And although they don’t sound very stable, their family history suggests that removing the kids for the foster/adoption route might not be the best route in the long run.
Maybe they were locked up in an attic with their younger twin siblings because their momma was to ashamed to tell her new husband she had 4 kids from a previous marriage to her half-brother. You guys are so freaking judgmental!!!
Liberal? He’s been imprisoned once already, it’s not like everyone’s telling them to go ahead.
If you mean that Europeans must be liberal for this to happen at all, you missed out on the kind of oogy daughter-meets-father-for-the-first-time-then-starts-living-as-his-wife story in the news a while back.
Hee! My thoughts were along the same lines. Nice delivery!
How old was the sister when this started? Mid-teens? Yikes.
They met for the first time in May, 2000, so yeah, she would have been around 16.
Yuck.
Eh, let 'em argue their case. I doubt anyone will be moved by it.
I wish I had a cite handy, but I’m fairly certain that when long lost family are reunited, they often feel a strong attraction including sexual attraction, since the Westermarck effect wasn’t given an opportunity to take place. That coupled with seeing someone so similar to you, as if you share a close bond (well do you), it’s not surprising these things happen. I remember seeing or reading an interview with a woman who had sexual relations with her long lost son after being reunited.
It’s almost like a tragic love story. Almost. Maybe not.
There was a case in Spain several years ago… a couple who’d met, gotten married against his mother’s wishes… and only in her deathbed, when they already had three kids, had the mother said that she was the mother of both of them!
Since Spanish law doesn’t explicitly forbid marrying your half-sibling, the marriage itself was legal. But they were the first ones to be a bit yuckied out by the whole thing - and wishing Mom had either grown balls sooner or shut up forever.