Thursday, December 11, 2025

Dating a family member may not be all that dangerous - or uncommon as we thought? News to me...

 
In modern western society, marrying your cousin is not well accepted, particularly in the United States. Through a combination of old prejudices and present-day conventional wisdom about inherited birth defects, first cousin marriage is seen by many as a little too close for comfort, as well as a bad idea if you want children.
 

However, first cousin marriage is far more common, and far less dangerous, than many of us have been led to believe, as you’ll soon see. Further, if you include second cousins in the mix, according to the Clinical Genetics Handbook, the increased risks with regards to having children are nearly non-existent in this case compared with non-cousin marriage.
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3 comments:

  1. This comes out just in time for the muslem takeover. Up next, why marrying your brother is a good thing.

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  2. That's why Muslims, who marry cousins as a matter of course, have the highest rates of retardation and deformed children of any group in the modern world.

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  3. Ummm, the consanguinity of the ME kinda proves this to be totally wrong.

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Dating a family member may not be all that dangerous - or uncommon as we thought? News to me...

  In modern western society, marrying your cousin is not well accepted, particularly in the United States. Through a combination of old prej...