How do you feel about people marrying their cousins?
By suzieque
@suzieque (2334)
Canada
57 responses
@victor78 (1081)
• Malaysia
22 Nov 06
chinese used to married their cousin long time ago. now no more. actually depend which part of china i think, my friend grandmother said that people with same surname also can nnot married. haha. maybe there chinese still practice this in small village in china and we not know.
@addylove007 (2)
• India
14 Nov 06
Well marrying to some far away cousin does not create genetic disroders. I am a muslim and this practice is very very rare as far as I know. ya but in some orthodox families it sill happens....
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@delphi (26)
• India
20 Nov 06
Well, in South India it is quite common and people seem none the worse for it. I personally wouldn't like it. But sometimes the best of both sets of genes comes out and you end up having really brainy kids.
@redyellowblackdog (10629)
• United States
14 Nov 06
In the USA marrying a first cousin is illegal in most if not all states. However, marrying a 2d or 3d cousin is legal in most if not all states.
In the hillbillie regions of the USA the marrying of cousins at one time was common enough that people use to joke quite a bit about it.
Want an example?
If two hillbillies get divorced, are they still cousins?
Anyway, I always thought only really stupid people married their cousins. Then I found out (true story!) Albert Einstein's 2d wife was his first cousin! It is a strange world.
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@mauterershelley (570)
• United States
14 Nov 06
Cousins are family. Thats like insest or something.
@ishqvishq (1021)
• India
14 Nov 06
thats bad because cousins is a sister but i know that in muslim socity thats allowed so i want to left this there this is relates of religion
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@baysmummy (1637)
• Australia
14 Nov 06
I agree with you i think it is gross, i doesnt make sense there are so many people out there in the big wide world why choose someone your are related to?? and then go and have babies and give them being born with problems is just wrong! but i spose if someone is that desperate that they have to marry a cousin then thats there own choice but it is still wrong and sick!
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
14 Nov 06
In the UK it's not against the law to marry a first cousin and most people would not find it wrong at all. It's a matter of culture, nothing more.
Genetically, first cousins share only one set of grandparents and, unless they are children of identical twins, the genetic identity is less than half the same. It is very, very unlikely that children from such a marriage will be abnormal in any way. If fact it is just as likely that such a marriage would enhance a desirable trait as it is that it would bring out an undesirable trait!
Think of pedigree animals - cows, sheep, pigs, horses, dogs - they are far more 'inbred' than many human families which may have a century or so of that level of inbreeding because they have lived in the same isolated community.
If two people fall in love and want to raise a family, it is far, far better than the child abuse and inter-family rape which is often hushed up and covered over! Yes, of course they should be much more meticulous about checks for possible genetic problems but, apart from that, there is no harm in it.
@itsokrelax (733)
• United States
14 Nov 06
My cousin has nice ti ts and I once put in my mouth her vagi nal reagion...it tasted quite well
@jimhuo2008 (572)
• China
3 Apr 07
yes, this things happened in lots of places few years ago. but you know ,in that place , the ecnomy is very poor , a young man maybe have no any money to marry a girl. the cousins,the reactive of his , maybe for mercy, married with him.but now it not happen anymore I think.