What is the word for dating someone in your family?

2 Answers. The most commonly used word would be incest, although technically, incest refers to sex between (close) relatives.

What does relative mean in the sense of relative dating?

Relative dating. Relative dating is the science of determining the relative order of past events (i.e., the age of an object in comparison to another), without necessarily determining their absolute age (i.e. estimated age).

What is it called when family members have a baby?

Incest (/ˈɪnsɛst/ IN-sest) is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives. This typically includes sexual activity between people in consanguinity (blood relations), and sometimes those related by affinity (marriage or stepfamily), adoption, clan, or lineage.