# Young married couples single inlaw parents hook up with each other. Illegal or just oogy?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 19, 2009, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-married-couples-single-inlaw-parents-hook-up-with-each-other-illegal-or-just-oogy/518143 "2009-11-19T14:21:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-married-couples-single-inlaw-parents-hook-up-with-each-other-illegal-or-just-oogy/518143/61 "2009-11-20T05:18:42Z")

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_head asplode_

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-married-couples-single-inlaw-parents-hook-up-with-each-other-illegal-or-just-oogy/518143/62 "2009-11-20T05:23:36Z")

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> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#):
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> It happened in _Drive Me Crazy_ (only without the kids being married), and Melissa Joan Hart’s character seemed to find it quite oogy.
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> What? Yes, I watched it. And I _liked it_! Eat me, haters!

Ha, it’s the first thing I thought of too. And **I** own that movie on DVD.

Could the OP please come back and explain why they asked if it would be illegal? Oogy I can understand wondering about, but the question of legality has me baffled.

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-married-couples-single-inlaw-parents-hook-up-with-each-other-illegal-or-just-oogy/518143/63 "2009-11-20T05:45:19Z")

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Siblings marrying other sets of siblings is common in towns/small cities with large families (such as Mexican communities, for example, with many families having lots of kids, and not that many families in town). I mentioned this to a Mexican-American friend once, and she said it happened quite often where she grew up. I had friends in this situation (which was why I brought it up to my other friend in the first place) who adopted a daughter of their siblings/in-laws, and you could hardly tell her apart from her new siblings, they all resembled each other so much. Genetically closer than cousins.

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