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Milestone One

Satonga Brown

JUS-325

Southern New Hampshire University

Milestone 1

Incest is a process of having sex or marrying close relatives from a similar line of blood. It mostly involves having sex with your siblings, children or even parents. A family law relationship considers both the mentioned sexual relationship from adoptive relatives as incest (Crofts, 2007). According to the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, such relationships are illegal (Rollin, 2007). However, this relationship can be ignored if, for instance, a boy and a girl were separated from birth and they did not know that they are relative. The common law of incest totally prohibits sexual relationship between adults and children, with or without knowledge about their blood similarity. If this happens, it is considered child sexual abuse.

Most communities restrict incest since children born from this close relationship have high chances of getting congenital disorders, physical disabilities as well as death (Rollin, 2007). It is, therefore, the obligations of guardians and parents to bring awareness to their children concerning association to avoid incent relationship.

In the twentieth century, incest marriage was observed as a matter of authority from churches. That to say, it was not a crime and the law courts had nothing to do with it. However, the legal situation has currently changed and actions are taken against it. Additionally, most of the marriage rights both in the country and in the world are against incest. Incest law is taken very seriously. In fact, the offenders are sentenced in prison for a period of not less than 25 years (Lagodny, 2011). In return, this has reduced both the rate of incest in the society and professional family as well, where incest was not observed as a crime.

References

Crofts, P. (2007). Sex in the Dark: The Brothels Legislation Amendment Act 2007 (NSW). Current Issues in Criminal Justice, 19(2), 183-196. doi: 10.1080/10345329.2007.12036425

Lagodny, O. (2011). Basic rights and substantive criminal law: The Incest Case. University Of Toronto Law Journal, 61(4), 761-781. doi: 10.1353/tlj.2011.0026

Rollin, H. (2007). Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, s. 5 (2); an offense against imbecile woman; definition of ‘imbecility'. British Journal of Psychiatry, 190(4), 365-365. doi: 10.1192/bjp.190.4.365