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Katie Grant: Marriage to the mother in law is really no joke

   February 13 2005, 12:00am, The Sunday Times

   You longed for the lugubrious Dawson in the week when the Scottish
   executive announced that mothers-in-law are no longer off limits for
   sons-in-law with a roving eye – or daughters-in-law for fathers-in-law
   looking for a younger model.

   It seems, on the face of it, a hilarious gimmick. But even if there may
   be nothing technically wrong in these liaisons, there is something
   spooky about a person who wants to marry a parent-in-law or a
   child-in-law. It must, at the very least, be a conversation stopper.

   But there are problems here too. The rules about relationships
   acceptable for marriage were not made as a joke. The ban on marriage
   with daughters-in-law or sons-in-law was made because, when they join
   the family, daughters-in-law and sons-in-law are supposed…
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