@xxpelxx wrote:Who will be able to pinpoint genetic siblings in a few years? Unless they are registered by the same parent, it will be bedlam regarding incest.
IVF, surogacy, donor eggs and sperm. All those things happening in different countries and most have no acurate way of keeping tab on proper registration.
How many sisters and brothers will become couples in future and not know how closely they are related?
It's a small world.
Erica
The possibility of that is statistically minute. But I think that genetic parents should be identified somewhere in child's records, so people can find out their genetic medical history and where their ancestors came from . Some people do not want to know, but others do. I was not overly interested until couple of years ago, and then, when I did our family tree, and hit a dead end on one branch back in early 1800s I was devastated LOL
Anyway, maybe it will be advisable in future to have genetic test done before people get married, and to determine whether people are related or not is one thing that can be done, and is not all that expensive. But as people nowadays move so much, around the country and around the world, to marry your sibling is less likely, than it would have been in the past. When people were born and died in the same town, if somebody had a child out of wedlock that child would most likely be known to the person's other kids.
