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She was Joseph's espoused wife. She was not "unmarried" as some say. Betrothal to Joseph was already a legally binding marriage. This is why Joseph could not simply walk away from Mary without first getting a divorce.

Sounds pretty legalistic to me. So, she was Josephs wife in name only with no intention of ever consummating the marriage? That's probably not what Joseph had in mind when he first proposed. This sounds like deception on somebody's part. But Blessed Mary was not that kind of girl. Happily Jesus had some half brothers later. I think James was one of them. So it ended well after all.

It's only reasonable to call the circumsances around the marriage of Mary to Joseph, and the begetting of the Lord Jesus, an unprecedented situation.

Interestingly, although the Muslims affirm that Mary became pregnant while a virgin, they deny that God is the Father of Jesus Christ --- they deny the conception of Jesus in the womb of Mary by the paternity-power of the Holy Spirit. They say, rather, that God (Allah) created Christ in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and as a result Jesus really had no (begetting) father AND no (genetic) mother: he was simply created parentless, as was Adam, and placed in the womb of Mary as if in an incubator.

Part of the Muslims' reasoning is that they say that Almighty God would not take somebody's wife in an act of --- they would call it--- divine adultery.

But they are wrong, because

although Mary was already legally married to Joseph, it was not a consummated marriage;
Jesus was not "created" in the womb of Mary, He was begotten. This means Mary was his true genetic mother, and God was His true father (not just his "creator").
Mary and Joseph both knew they would not be having marital sex (which is why Mary asks "How shall this happen?" when she is told by Archangel Gabriel she will conceive) --- Joseph was marrying her more as a guardian, than as a husband in the conjugal sense of the word.

It's logically impossible to make generalizations from single instances, so I think all of these things apply to this situation alone, and none of it is directly comparable to any other person's marriage situation before or afterwards.

Jesus had no full brothers or sisters. If he had half-brothers or sisters, they were the widower Joseph's children that he had in a previous marriage. Or the "brothers" mentioned in the Gospel were other close male kin, cousins and so forth. The word "brothers" in a Biblical context --- as we can see in many Scriptural texts --- does not necessarily mean other children of one's father and mother.

Cousin!!

CouSin!!!

COUSIN!!!!!!!!!