what are your views on cousins getting married? people that are related through parents such as your uncles's son...something like that - my brother's colleague got married to his cousin the other day so it brought up a few questions.
and my best friends are asian and they are going to marry their cousins too; what are your views on this?
2006-07-15 10:15:49 · 28 answers · asked by Miss Terious 3 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
there is nothing sick or disgusting about it. IT was once a common practice to keep family trait lines pure, especially the Royal Families. Somewhere along the way, a Royal line had poor recessive trait that surfaced because of the inter-family breeding. Because of ignorance about DNA at that time, everybody began to believe that incest created damaged babies. And over the years, many taboos have been created about the topic.
It's legal to marry your cousin in 26 States and worldwide, 20% of marriages are with cousins.
2006-07-15 10:36:13 · answer #1 · answered by dbelyew 2 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Marrying a cousin is legal. Also, I'm sure people don't look to fall in love with their cousin. I think it might just happen, just like it just happens with a friend or someone you meet. The possibilities of a child being genetically sick being born from first cousins or non-cousins are not much different. Many people who are not cousins have sick children. On the other hand many cousins have healthy children. Don't judge and research.
2006-07-18 11:06:31 · answer #2 · answered by bebe_mitzpah 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Back in time in another place this was a common practice among blue bloods... was a way to keep the blood lines royal, and was accepted widely,. In todays society it is less common but still occurs frequently, there are some who say love and marriage are ok as long as it is not a brother/sister, father/daughter mother/son aunt/nephew, uncle/neice, or first cousin relationship, though some believe the first cousin thing is ok too. My opinion is, that's just wrong....
2006-07-15 10:23:34 · answer #3 · answered by osirissk8rboy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The genetic abnormality thing is rare amongst cousins. Siblings? Well, that's a different story.
I think that there are other fish in the sea, OUTSIDE of the family, but it's not unheard of. It also not something that's within our right to judge. If we don't like it, then we shouldn't do it.
What other people do, though, is their business. If you want to crawl in bed with a cousin, while I agree that it's a bit too close to home for my liking, that's what is right for THEM.
Royal bloodlines marry within the family a great deal. Gross? Um, yeah. Wrong? Not necessarily.
2006-07-15 10:21:48 · answer #4 · answered by <3 The Pest <3 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's bad to do nowadays. The reason is that in a family, genetically speaking, the DNA is very similar. And because it's similar it means taht the defects in the that family's DNA will be amplified in children. This pretty much guarntees nowadays that children of cousins who get married will have many many genetic defects and diases. It is cruel to bring children into the world with that many potencial problems.
2006-07-15 10:20:14 · answer #5 · answered by spockofvullcan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it is weird getting married to relatives. it can lead to genetic problems. Getting married within only a certain group of people who share similar dna such as your relatives, in such cases the genetic problems which are smalll in you can magnify themselves. This has been proven,
2006-07-15 10:20:34 · answer #6 · answered by Shahbaaz Ali K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as im aware its legal. Bit wierd, but legal.
Asians inter-marry and have done so for generations. Thats why they have a higher rate of disabilities than other cultures. Because there is a limited gene-pool.
Thats one of the reasons why its illegal in most cultures to mary a close relative, because of the higher risk of disabilities.
And before anyone accuses me of racism, Im not being racist, i work in the medical profession and am well aware of current research.
2006-07-15 10:36:38 · answer #7 · answered by lozzielaws 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
as long via fact the blood distance is 2d cousin or greater, there are no longer any actual concerns approximately having infants. Adam and Eve's infants married one yet another and reproduced, so there should not be any biblical concerns. i think the only concern they face are judgmental human beings
2016-10-07 23:13:37 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is common in many cultures and is not the least bit harmful. In fact, you will probably have more in common with a cousin than with someone unrelated. And, you'll have a large extended family that already loves both of you.
2006-07-15 10:23:44 · answer #9 · answered by Otis F 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No Ma'am. That is not allowed. Not first, second, or third cousins. The only way it would be somewhat OK was if the relation was only through marriage, IE no blood relation. However, that is still weird.
2006-07-15 10:19:24 · answer #10 · answered by Brian D 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋