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Originally Posted by seamus
The power dynamics of the parent-child relationship is perhaps the only honest argument you can make against it. Even if they are consenting adults, I would suppose it is useful to criminalize it as so a parent doesn't groom a child. Maybe you could try to argue that at a certain age it is no longer the case, but that ain't 18 years old. Most children are still partially dependented on their parents - even if it isn't financial - for years.
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Children can be on their parent's health insurance through age 25, and parents can be the lifetime caregivers of children with certain disabilities, even those developed after age 25 (see the sad case of Amanda Bynes). The truth is that in our society, there's no age where the tie is completely severed. Adult incest is not okay, and our standards of consent ought not be relaxed. Those who say otherwise are truly lazy thinkers who would rather apply a heuristic from a completely different debate than think this issue through.