Mother Talkers

Father and Daughter in "Relationship"

Tue Apr 15, 2008 at 09:20:54 AM PDT

John Deaves abandoned his daughter Jenny when she was just one year old. Father and daugher reunited after 30 years, and just two weeks later...had sex.

"John and I are in this relationship as consenting adults," Mrs Deaves told the Nine Network's 60 Minutes tonight.

"We are just asking for a little bit of respect and understanding."

Yes, you read that right; they're in a "relationship". They also have a nine-month old daughter, Celeste.

Jenny stated that soon after reuniting with her father, she began to see him as a man first, and her father second. But wait. She still saw him as her father...right? Ew.

"I was looking at him, sort of going, oh, he's not too bad," she said.

"Like you might look at a man across the bar at a nightclub."

And what does daddy have to say? "I knew it was illegal, of course I knew it was illegal but you know, so what."

After reading this article, I have SO many questions. Why would they go public with this? How can you be sexually interested in your child/parent? What are they going to tell their daughter, who's also Jenny's half-sister? What does Jenny's mother think about this? And finally, is there really a shortage of good men in Oz?

What do you think?

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Tags: Incest, Australia, Relationship (all tags)

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