Are Jace & Clary actually siblings?

@ howarand - I understand what you're saying and I'm pleased to see another happy family that's been created due to adoption! However, I think perhaps you're not seeing all the facts that the other posters have in mind when they are making these comments.

Why would it even matter to anyone if Jace and Carly are brother/sister? Because they are a couple, boyfriend/girlfriend at this time, but that relationship could possibly continue to grow until they become husband/wife and even parents themselves - that's where the problem would exist. There are laws in most countries and in every state of the U.S. that prohibits actual (blood related) siblings from marrying each other in order to prevent them becoming parents of children of their own. Way before anyone knew about or understood DNA, people had come to realize that when families inter-married within their own close relatives, children of those unions were very likely to have serious physical or mental disabilities. Perhaps by now with all the amazing information that DNA has revealed, scientists might understand the exact reason for this damage to those children. Back in the dark ages, when I was a kid, the explanation was that "when children are created it's an opportunity for new blood to correct problems that might have existed in either family. If one family has a history of Type A/childhood diabetes, if they marry the right person whose blood can fix that, perhaps it will conquer that problem." I have no idea if they understood that technically there was no "new blood" introduced into the fetus or if they just used that term because they understood there was a co-mingling of the traits and such from each parent, but did not have the vocabulary or the knowledge to explain how that co-mingling takes place. Let's face it, the idea that from 2 independent cells, one from each parent, a completely new and unique person can be formed, a person who has how many billion (?) cells in their body, that would have been a pretty difficult situation for people to have understood or accepted not even all that long ago!

Honestly, our country is in need of a really thorough make over of our incest laws because they are too different from state to state and we now do have DNA information that could form the scientific basis of these laws. In one state it might be illegal for a man to marry his adopted sister even though there is no actual blood relation between them (no reason that might negatively affect their children), but in the surrounding states there are two states that allow that type of marriage. Well, what happens when the couple who married after being raised as adopted brother and sister decides to move to the state where they would not be allowed to marry? That changes from state to state also - some states recognize a marriage performed in another state even though that same marriage would be illegal to perform in their state, but others will not recognize it as a legal marriage - what a mess! So, if you're looking for a worthwhile profession and a noble battle with which to start off your occupation - how about becoming an attorney, get elected to a position in the legislative branch at federal level and fixing this mess!


Shauna & Ms. Phoebe, my God-given Happy Pill