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In the United States the District of Columbia and every state and inhabited territory[citation needed] have some form of codified incest prohibition. In all states, incest is sexual activity between a lineal ancestor and a lineal descendant (parent, grandparent with child or grandchild), siblings (brother-sister) and aunt-nephew, uncle-niece. However, individual statutes vary widely. Rhode Island has repealed its criminal incest statute[67] and only criminalizes incestuous marriage.[68] Ohio "targets only parental figures",[67] and New Jersey does not apply any penalties when both parties are 18 years of age or older.[6][67] A conviction for incest attracts the following maximal penalties by state:[citation needed]

No penalty in Connecticut[69]
1 year imprisonment in South Carolina[68][70]
5 years imprisonment in Hawaii,[67] Utah (even for first-cousin relations),[67] Florida
10 years imprisonment in Mississippi,[68] North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Minnesota
14 years imprisonment in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Idaho
15 years imprisonment in Louisiana,[68] Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia
20 years imprisonment in Massachusetts,[67] New York, New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania, and Vermont
25 years imprisonment in Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, Wyoming, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky
10 to 30 years in Georgia (25-50 years for incest with a child under 14)[71]
Life imprisonment in Alabama, North Carolina, Montana[68] and Tennessee.

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We plan to move to New Jersey where we can be safe under the law, since adult incest isn’t illegal there...

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'Everybody thinks that kids born in incestuous relationships will definitely have genetic problems, but that’s not true,' she explains.

'That happens when there’s years of inbreeding, like with the royal family. Incest has been around as long as humans have.'