Word: incesting
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...contains, among other matters, madness, incest, something very close to fratricide and an abortion the consequences of which reverberate down the years. All of this is reflected in Crick's face and manner -- full of suppressed torment -- and in the eerie, sweetly stated hysteria of his barren wife, Mary (Sinead Cusack), who endures false pregnancies and indulges in kidnapping in an attempt to fulfill her need for motherhood...
...took that case because I thought it could be resolved. I think one of the big issues that's going come up in the next decade is how changing family structures will require a redefinition of the definition of incest. Incest is no longer a genetic factor only, it's a psychological factor...
...family relationships grow more complex, role confusion is bound to become epidemic. More battles will be fought over household turf, inheritance and rivalries for affection. Even incest, long considered an absolute taboo, will become a more complicated issue because the fracturing of families will make it harder to define. If nonrelatives within a family have sex, is that incest or something else...
...official position of the Bush campaign is that Bush opposes abortion "except when the life of the mother is threatened or when rape or incest is involved." While not quite as inflexible as the Republican platform position, Bush has unmistakably placed himself on the right-wing of the abortion debate...
...walls of privacy continue to be bulldozed by television. Video cameras are nosing their way into courtrooms and police patrol cars. The victims of child abuse and incest disclose their darkest secrets to Oprah, Phil and Geraldo. Now a spate of game shows -- half a dozen currently on the air, with several more in the works -- are eavesdropping on the few private areas left for ordinary people: love, romance and -- in leering if not explicit terms...