France: Incestous parents officially named on child's birth cert

A half-brother and sister have been legally recognized as the parents of their child after a legal battle in France.

Rose-Marie and Hervé didn't know they were half-siblings until they went to get their child's birth certificate. It was then they found out they shared the same mother. The half-siblings had been separated as children and raised in different foster homes in the Aube region in northeastern France.

They met in 2006 and their daughter was born in 2009. The couple broke up shortly before the child was born and she was raised by her mother.

According to French Civil Code Article 310-2, only one parent of a child born in an incestuous relationship can be named the parent.

A Cherbourg judge ruled in 2016 that the mother's relationship to the child should be annulled, saying, "The child's incestuous origin should not be known to everyone," Le...