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Answered by Sh. Mustafa Umar1 min read
You have an obligation to take care of your own parents and treat them well. Your spouse does not have this obligation, even if you all live together in the same house. He or she should try to be nice to your parents as much as possible but there is no defined responsibility they have towards your parents, the way you do.
IVF is allowed only if: 1) the sperm comes from the husband, the egg comes from the wife, and there is no third party such as a surrogate mother involved 2) implantation occurs while the couple are still married (so no divorce or death has taken place) 3) there is a good reason for this procedure such as the couple not being able to have children naturally. The extracted eggs or fertilized embryos may be frozen for a medical reason or to preserve future fertility, but cannot be given to anyone else. Since multiple embryos are made through the IVF procedure, they may be discarded (but cannot be given to someone else to use) because they do not have the status of human life (which occurs after at least forty days after pregnancy).
It is fine for a man to defer (called muakhkhar) some or all of the dower (mahr) he will gift to his wife for marriage. However, this remains a debt and must be paid regardless of death or divorce. It is forbidden to make a conditional-upon-divorce dower (also called muakhkhar), as some cultures do, to pressure the husband to not divorce his wife.
We do not know for sure but it is most likely that it was allowed due to necessity, since there were no other people on earth at that time. After that, marriage between them was prohibited, and remained like that ever since.
If a child drinks the breastmilk of a woman she becomes his milk-mother and any other child who drinks from her becomes his milk-sister. They can never be married and do not have to observe dresscode guidelines with them. The age of breastfeeding is up to two years and does not establish any milk relationship after that.