Splitting heirs

[sacramentalist]

What is the message to adopted people when everyone clarifies Dylan Farrow was an "adopted" daughter? Are they pointing out the contrast to Soon-Yi Previn, the step-daughter the man groomed and married? Or are they minimizing his role as a goddamned parent? Well, it wasn't "rape" rape. And she wasn't his "daughter" daughter.

Comments

[bronnyelsp.livejournal.com]

I think I'm coming at it from a family law perspective, actually.

I agree that emotionally, psychological parenthood is really the only type that matters. And a parent having sex with a child who is not related to them is emotionally just as damaging as a parent having sex with their biological child. But it isn't incest. Incest is sexual relations that are taboo because of close blood relationship.

[eyelid.livejournal.com]

I didn't say WA/SY was incest. I said one of the reasons for the incest ban is safe-space-for-kids (power disparity dynamics).

[bronnyelsp.livejournal.com]

I think it's working backwards to say that's one of the reasons. The incest ban dates from prehistoric times, when frankly child sexual safety was not a big concern.