Incest is taboo in every society. it is shame for the societies. some people say globally it is on rise. It is a bad thing that should not be happen. Scientifically it creates problem to the children.there are 50% chance that child may be handicapped in many ways even unable to survive. According to religion this is great sin.
I think everybody knows all these things. then why it is happened???
there are so many reasons behind it as
1-there is modernisation everywhere, todays world is impressed by glamour and fashion. Girls and ladies have forgot about their privacy.
They show their flash. so they attract abusers at home and outside home.

2- In developing countries like india the sex ratio is very poor.
there is lack of females everywhere. this is also cause sexual abuses.we should save the girl child so that the ratio become balanced.

3-In todays culture marriage is happened very late which also causes sexual abuses. Marriages should be done around 18 years for girls and 20 years for boys.

4-People have lost moral and they are going far from religion. Most people do not know basic fundamental of religion. and lack of sense.
so do such heineous act. there should be regular teaching at our religious place of moral that are good for societies.

5-Girls and ladies should be resistive to any incest they should not compromise and should raise alarm.

Etc.....

if all preventive measures are followed we will never face such an incident

Sowmya I really like your courage. Being an Indian daughter you have shown the courage of a real Devi. May you have a happy future. I am sure there are people who would be there when you need them, I know I will be there any time.

Those who wrote this article and those who commented on it are missing on one important point - the consensual incest. Furthermore, all incest is being mistakenly interpretted as an act of brutal coercion on the part of a male blood relation. But facts speak otherwise. Forced incest is infrequent compared to the consensual one. Incest does not mean just that between a father and his daughter or an uncle and his niece. It has many avtars involving mother and son and each every realtionship. So, incest has been there since times immemorial. Anti-incest laws have been there in Europe but they are gradually doing away with them, having found that there is effectively no way incest could be checked. So, now in Switzerland, a birth-son and his birth-mother can marry like any other couple. There is no way to rid the society of its millenia-long incestuous practices, no matter, how stringent your laws are. Real incest is consensual and happens within the confines of the four walls. So, they can not be detected. Therefore, while anti-incest laws succeed in instilling fear in non-incestuous people, they prove themselves to be miserably ineffective in the case of the really incestuous ones. Resultantly, poeple will be afraid of speaking of a case of incest even when it comes to their notice. Moreover, psychologicaly, the fact of prohibition adds to the pleasure of incest.

Incest is so far not illegel in India. There is no Indian law prohibiting sex between related couples. The Government of India can not legislate on incest because India has all and sundry anthropological versions of marriage happening on its soil. Apart from cousin marriages and uncle and neice marriages, even mother-son marriages are common too in an Indian tribe called Baigas [Madhya Pradesh]. Meghalayans marry their mother-in-law. Women in a tribe called Todas (Tamilnadu) simultaneously marry 3 or 4 husbands. So, where and to who can the govt. set a limit and in what way ?