German incest laws challenged (CNN Blog & Story)

[Dulcinea]

Patrick and Susan are a couple and have four children. They are also brother and sister and that makes their relationship illegal under German law. Patrick and Susan didn’t even know of each other’s existence until Patrick was over 20 years old and Susan was in her teens. After their mother died, they lived together and eventually fell in love.


“We just want to lead a normal life,” Patrick tells me, when he finally does manage to speak during the interview. He and Susan appear to be afraid of the camera. I can’t blame them. We’ve come into their home, are shining powerful lights in their faces and asking them to put their whole lives out in the open for us. Lives that have been as tough as anyone could imagine.


“People harass us all the time and call us the incest couple. They have no idea who we really are or how it all happened,” Patrick says, and then he goes on to speak about the legal ordeal he’s been put through. He’s been to jail because of the relationship with his sister; and three of their four children have been taken away from them by German Youth Welfare Services. Now Patrick wants to take the struggle to get the relationship legalized to the highest German court.

http://www.cnn.com/exchange/blogs/in.the.field/

You can also go to the CNN homepage to watch video of the story. www.cnn.com

[LiberalFighter]

1. It's a bit late stopping the marriage.

I bet if they declare the marriage null and void the father will still have to pay child support.
It still doesn't make the father not the father regardless of what the legal system rules.

I like to see what the churches have to say about this. I would rebut them with who did Adam and Eve's children have sex with?