Do you have the custom of marriage between cousins?

Well, marriage between relatives is not allowed in my religion and customs and rightly so. Even science prohibits such marriages. The thing is generations to come are affected by such marriages. Certain diseases like Hemophilia have higher chances to show up in people of next generations. Some people are carriers of such diseases that do not get affected by that disease but pass on the gene responsible of disease to next generation. If a person in a family is carrier of a disease that it is quite possible that some relatives will also be carriers. If two carriers undergo marriage, they both pass the gene of disease to their child. Due to this, instead of becoming carrier like his/her parents, he/she is affected by the disease. Many of these diseases are Lethal in nature. So such marriages can be threat to the generations to come. I am a biotech student, so couldn't help in explaining in such a way :P Happy MyLotting :D

No, I belong to a Hindu family so my custom also not allow me to marry within five generation. I think it's a custom of Muslim religion.

Hi dalia, In our state this custom is common among Hindus. Earlier, there was a system of nephews; means the nephews were getting the ancestral property so this kind of marriage will help to hold back the properties with the same person. If the person’s daughter is getting married with his nephew then there is no question of loosing the property. Cousin marriage becomes popular/ custom on this way. Now people are realizing the bad effect of getting married with blood relation. But still it is going on but seems very less than earlier.

The awareness to avoid getting married within close relations is slowly getting down among the villagers now.They do a lot of things like this so as not to lose the relationship and money.Science is against marrying within close relatives.But our cinemas are trying to renew it again and again. In our area,this marrying cousins is not practiced a lot.

In my society, marriae between cousins is very much taboo. Even marriage with second and third cousins is very much a taboo. However, once you get further removed than third cousins, it is no longer taboo in the social standard, but I still feel like it is taboo to me. I would never knowingly get married to someone that I knew that I was related to. I would rather branch out and mix more to assure that there are not genetically linked diseases passed on to my offspring.

Well, i am the sufferer because my grandpa and grandma were close relatives and married. There are lots of genetical problems my mom faced. She even devloped the genetic pshycological disorders which my grandpa has. Doctors said its mainly due to close relatives marriage. I dont like it.

We don't have that custom in this country, as far as I know. I don't think that it's a good idea, especially if they are blood relatives versus by marriage. I am not one who likes to judge, especially since I feel like it's not our place to do so. I don't think it's a good idea for blood cousins to have children though as all the health problems that can easily come with that.

Oh nope, we dont have that kind of custom here. That kind of relationship is highly discouraged to actually forbidden. Though I can understand why some cultures would accept that kind of connection. However, as you have mentioned it is not healthy. The offspring of two nearly similar genes would have complications and the child has a high risk of being abnormal. Just the thought of that is enough to keep family marriages from happening. Still, there are customs who prefer this and we just have to respect the traditions that they have been used to. It is what makes their culture and what makes them unique.

We do not have that custom here. It might acutally be illegal to do such a thing. My mother grew up in Kenya however, and there, if you married a woman and she passed away, you then took her sister for a wife.

The christian belief is second cousins or first cousins once removed. Which would be two generations.

That is a bad practice to follow. Not good at all. I cannot believe that people would want to marry their family before choosing outside the family. Don't they realise that this type of thing is not good for the human gene pool and that babies can be born deformed or mentally retarded! There are a few islands that I know of here in Australia where a lot of this family marriage has gone on. Norfolk Island has a population made up of mostly people with the surname Christian and French Island have lots of people called Thompson! I think that your five generation custom is a good idea!

in our country it's not advisable to get married with your cousin. but there are reported cases that cousins got married. there's a belief in here that when cousins get married there will be a problem with pregnancy and having a child. if they will be blessed with a child--the child will have abnormalities.

Well, my friend. I'm a Muslim and the custom of marriage between cousins is allowed in our religion. Actually the prohibition imposed on this custom wasn't due to health reason. This custom has no relation with health. At the eve of human civilization, people had no other way to generate themselves except marriage in closee relatives. But later when the population increased and scattred everywhere, they wanted to increase their family relation through marriage in distant places. The leaders of the society thought that if we marry between our close relatives we won't be able to spread our genaration in far places. So, in this end in view, they imposed ban on marriage in close relatives. If we marry in a farther place we'll be able to get an easy access there. In this way human kind has spread all over the world easily. Actually there is no physical barrier of the marriage between cousins. There are lot of cases of cousins' marriage in our religion. Have a nice day.

In the states it is frowned upon. They always make jokes about people in a certain state marrying their cousins, but I don't know how true it is. I always thought it was against the law because you can have children with problems, but I guess not. I do know a lot of other countries do this all the time (like the royal family in Britin) at least they used to.

Personally, I do not think it is at all appropriate to marry one's own cousin. I know there are populations where this is practiced, but I am sure these populations are more prone to having genetic problems than populations where inter-marriage between cousins is banned.

I think that would be considered incest, and it is illegal here in most states as far as I know, not to mention that I am pretty sure it can cause serious birth defects in any children that may be born of the marriage, so I feel that it is wrong...

It is forbidden in my religion but in some cultures in my country it is allowed like those belonging to the muslim and maranao clan bothe believers of Islam so it is allowed even as still a child they were already have an arrangement for both parents that each of their children would married each other even as a first cousin. They do it so their family wealth stay and would not be gone by letting a non blood to mix with their so call royal blood and also it have to do with being a reputable member of the society with high status. they like it to remain. while those who live in the hinterlands like those tribes belonging in different groups they also permit marrying between cousin but in my religion being a Roman catholic it is forbidden since the blood relation they believe if two cousin married each other like those first cousin they have abnormal children or produce offspring with full defects like those with different body malformation , being mongoloid or with cerebral palsy so it is forbidden.

i cannot say we have this custom..we know its unhealthy.and we try not to marry in relatives .but there come many conditions in which people have to marry first and second cousins and they do so..

No. i am chinese. in the ancient chinese custom, it is most likely for cousins to get marriage as they grow uo together. however now few cousins will get to marrige. because they are too used to each other and they are more like friend rather than couples. by the way, to marry with cousin is illegal in china and such a marriage is disapproved by the chinese government

Well, we don't have a custom of marriage between relatives. Even science prohibits such sort of marriages. Chances of certain diseases like Hemophilia increases due to such marriages. Some people are carrier of such diseases. A carrier is not affected by the disease but pass the gene for disease to next generation. The problem with marriage between close relatives is that both bride and groom can be carriers of such disease. If two carriers undergo marriage, their child will not be carrier like them but will suffer from the disease. Many of these diseases are Lethal. So such marriages can prove to be lethal to next generations. I am a Biotech Student so couldn't help explaining that ^^ Happy Mylotting :D