Incest Research Paper

Regardless of religion, race, or sexual orientation, relationships are one subject that can always be found pre-judged. Some believe that it’s wrong to have a relationship with someone of the same sex; others believe that people of two different ethnicities shouldn’t be found in a relationship together, and it wasn’t until 1967 that interracial couples were allowed to get married. The relationship that is, in the eyes of most individuals, the most offensive and wrong would be an incestuous relationship. Incestuous relationships are those which take place between two members of the same family, immediate, or extended. The thought of lying with one’s mother or father could or should be repulsive, but some find themselves doing anything in their power to be with someone of their immediate family. In Pampinella Cropper’s Myrrha: Incestuous Passion and Political Transgression, Cropper discusses Myrrha a female character in the novel Dante’s Inferno who has been damned because of fraud, she has impersonated someone else in order to lay with her father. These acts are not accepted in societies today, and could be punishable by law (Cropper.) These instances aren’t always those of a young girl’s ignorance, there are some instances of incest that have been forced upon those of the same family. Cases where fathers have taken advantage of their daughters and made them participate in sexual acts that can result in pregnancy and children who are born with disorders and live short lives due to their grandfather/father’s selfishness and negligence. “Disabilities arising from missing or duplicate genes are known to occur more frequently in children born through incest. Children who are not born through incest normally have a genome, the map of their whole DNA, with a high degree of "heterozygosity", reflecting the fact they received half their genes from a mother who was biologically unrelated to the father, from whom they received the other half. Because of

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