world over marriage between first cousins is not encouraged, but in India it is very common. what are the incest laws in India? is it that only cross cousins (bro-sis' children) can marry or even parallel cousins (bro-bro children) can marry? Islam allows parallel cousins marriage. how well is marriage bet parallel cousins accepted in society? n i also read tat such marriages have a marginal increase in risk (5%-7%) for abnormalities at the birth of a child whn compared to any normal couple (3%-4%). is this true?? please throw light on the above questions... thanks a lot
2006-07-05 03:43:00 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
In the rural areas of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it is not unusual to find that a third of marriages are with first cousins. The rate is even higher in some Middle Eastern nations. Roughly half of the marriages are with first cousins in much of the Arabian Peninsula, especially in the south. Among the Bedouin Arabs , for instance, marriage partner preference is specifically for a patrilateral parallel cousin (father's brother's child)
Among the Yanomam Indians of Brazil and Venezuela, the cultural preference is to unite different patrilineal lineages by exchanges of women. This begins by two men marrying each others sisters, thereby creating a kinship bond between the men. The alliance is continued by men in subsequent generations marrying their cross cousins (father's sister's daughters)
does that help? lol
2006-07-11 13:48:30 · answer #1 · answered by canadian_beaver_77 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Out of the billions and billions of people in the world today, you want to marry a cousin? What are you? The elite ruling class? Related to Bush? Do you have lizard blood?
2006-07-05 10:50:29 · answer #2 · answered by changRdie 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
What do you care? The very idea is even GROSS!
2006-07-05 10:46:07 · answer #3 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋