He's not her cousin, he will be her Step-cousin in the future. Absolutely no relation by blood so not incest. Perfectly legal and biologically safe.
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For the thousandth time they are not blood related and would at most be related by marriage. They should give the relationship a try. It is not incest regardless of how far there relationship goes.
shareYou can legally marry your first cousin, the closest blood relative you can marry. The genes are different enough so that any children would not be born with any deformations etc. So even if he was her blood cousin, it wouldn't technically be wrong.
shareWhere? Where can you legally marry your first cousin? I know of no such thing.
Yes it's true. My friends' step mum's first husband was her cousin. I thought this law was fairly well known?
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Not where I'm from this is incest. And not legal from the last I read of the law.
shareactually, cousin marriages are legal in some states. Do some research.
shareNOT first cousins. Eew! I think I hear the far off twanging of a banjo...
Regardless of that fact, step-cousins is a pretty trivial way to be related to somebody, under the law.
You can't even call them step cousins until and if her uncle marries his girlfriend.
The law is concerned with people people who share the same chromosomes and genes. This is in order to cut down on possible mental retardation or genetic diseases caused by a concentrated dose of inherited traits by closely related people.
Vada and Nick are not blood related. Somehow I don't see them seeing each other more than a few times in the future at family reunions. They live too far apart and will be meeting other people in between.
This thread is nonsense.
NOT first cousins. Eew! I think I hear the far off twanging of a banjo...
If you're ancestry traces back to middle or upper class europe a lot of your ancestry will be cousin marriages. It's still legal in most of the world as the risk involved is only marginally (about a percent) higher than any random pairing. It's only when you've got a family history of genetic diseases that it's problematic.
share21 states allow it, no questions asked, and five more allow it if they are of a certain age, usually 55 or older, or one of the couple is infertile.
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It's legal in over half the states
shareActually, many states allow it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage_law_in_the_United_States_by_state
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In actuality, he is not her cousin.
Besides what everyone else has already said, you can chalk up the "relationship" to the fact that a lot of times writers will overlook some things in order to further the plot or get things accomplished.
Vada was not supposed to be around any other people than her uncle while she was away from home, as per her fathers very reasonable request. The character of Vada would probably not have gone against her fathers request, or wanted to go out on her own in a strange, big city. Therefore, the writers did not have very many options for a possible adolescent relationship to show Vada growing up. They had to create a character that would be theoretically trusted by Vada's uncle to show her around the city, and be a romantic outlet at the same time.
Was it a perfect solution, maybe not. But it is what it is.
what you call incest, i call wincest.
"He chose ... poorly."
I agree this was heart warming tale of cousin banging.
Live Together, Cry Alone.
You people are being ridiculous. It isn't incest - they aren't BIOLOGY linked! It's even discussed in the scene where Vada gets her ears pierced. Pay attention.
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No they did not, they kissed. Plus it wouldn't be incest anyway. It was her Uncle's girlfriend's son.
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No. He's the son of her uncle's girlfriend.
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