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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This comes out just in time for the muslem takeover. Up next, why marrying your brother is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteThat'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.
ReplyDeleteUmmm, the consanguinity of the ME kinda proves this to be totally wrong.
ReplyDeletegood comment
DeleteWell........ the Royal family in England just might be the exception that proves the rule.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think arranged marriages were the norm everywhere for millennia? It’s because the old folks intuitively knew that too many generations of too closely related couples ended in disaster. The old folks knew who was related to whom and arranged the marriages to avoid this issue.
ReplyDeleteIf it was a one shot deal,technically this is correct. What's being ignored is the cumulative effect of marrying cousins especially within confined demographics. This line of reasoning is being pushed as more comes out about defects and mental stagnation particularly in the muslim community (the largest group of successive 1st & 2nd cousin relations). Look no further than the UK's NIH research on this.
ReplyDeleteone thing that my Mom told me years ago was that WW2 did a great deal for the gene pool. as before that, finding someone within 100 miles and marrying them was a normal thing. but with WW2, the gene pool got deeper as she called it
ReplyDeleteas people travelled like never before and met people from hundreds of miles away to hook up with.
anyway, that was her reason why the kids of the late 40/50/60 turned out the way they did.
Hundreds? My wife is from Japan.
DeleteEven dog and cat breeders have known for ever that too close breeding causes defects.
ReplyDeleteI would like to use the House of Windsor, the British Royal Family, as a counter argument to the problems caused by inbreeding.
ReplyDeleteHistory has proven that incest marriages create low mentality along with birth defects, this article is a load of BS, however some people will believe it as truth.
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