your family: who you can and cannot marry - negotiating a potential minefield
You’re a good-looking woman. You come from a good-looking family. Maybe, on occasion, you’ve caught yourself thinking: If I played my cards right, I could have good-looking babies with my good-looking brother.
STOP RIGHT THERE.
Marrying family members is rife with social, moral and legal complications. You can’t just jump in blindly without first considering the facts.
But what’s that I hear you say? You can’t make head nor tail of the Attorney-General’s website with its officious “thou shalt not” jargon? But what you do understand are the directions on the back of your packet of Byron Chai?
Well consider this specially concocted Fact Sheet…
Review your family for people you find attractive. Leave this list to brew for twenty minutes. Return to your list and determine the level of closeness between you and those you are attracted to; do you share parents, grandparents, does this person call you ‘mum’ or ‘dad?’ Remove from the list any direct descendants or ascendants. Also remove any adopted siblings. Leave on the list cousins, second cousins, aunties and uncles. Let your feelings simmer until you have selected the family member who has the optimum level of spice. Ask them out on a date.