Marrying a close family relative

Are you seriously telling us that it is legal in India to marry your niece? Because I'm sure it is illegal everywhere in the West, for both religious and genetic reasons. I'm not sure you're not pulling our legs. Lash

there lots of cases like that..marrying someone who's just a relative..most families who practice that is for their riches to preserve within their family only..and it was also proven in science that it contributes a great factor for having children with inborn illness..it was proven through genetics..

Your kidding right? No where in the world i know if you marry a family member. I mean really, it's family. What kind of kicks do one get out of marrying someone in the family? Ain't there someone else they could have married? As for the children, i heard about it causing problems, but never saw it before. But still, i find this more than odd and off. No offense.

This was also practices in some Chinese family to protect their wealth

I think these kinds of practises only happen in certain countries. Here in Canada you would very seldom come across a case like yours. I don't know all the laws but I have read your other responses and it seems to me it is against the law in some countries and not in others. As for the medical implications, I have always believed it would be bad for the children to be born out of this kind of union. I have always thought that they would have mental and physical problems. What about your parents? Are they related through birth or just through marriage? You sound like you have your smarts about you, your grammer and words are intelligent. littlemissy here signing off for now, talk to you soon my new friend

There are few cases that I have heard. The problem about medical has to do with the inheritance. If you come from a family with a history of a disease like cancer, there is possibility that most of the children might have the same disease.

It is a common practice to maintain a strain, eg the Royal Family and animals. Genetically if both sides of the union are pure and free from defects, the offspring will maintain the line. however,if there are defects it will multiply and cause a lot of medical problems. Cross breeds definitively are stronger,infusing outside bloodline will strengthen the offspring.

Philippines is not following such, we are pretty strict when it comes to marrying, we cannot marry someone up to the fourth sanguinity if i am correct. So we always make sure who we are marrying is not of our family.. because medical wise, it says it might cause complications in the genes and there might be birth defects.

Well, that maybe a tradition or culture in your place. Here in our country the law did not allowed any relatives to marry relatives up to the fourth degree of consanguinity...Meaning the child of the Uncle did not allow by law to marry the child of another uncle or auntie... This is not base on culture but base on scientific bases where most of the siblings in that relationship with relatives will be abnormal...

I have heard the medical reasons too. I guess it just depends upon your customs.

For me they are many doing it it is good because they know what was the attitude of that person they are to be there husband but some thing not okay in that case but they are both good as long as they love each other and they married first before they get involved together.

yes, marrying close relatives can pose a lot of genetic problems on the offspring. Especially when bad genes are combined together... it is better then to mate among relatives on the fifth degree of consanguinity...

First of all this is so gross, this is incest don't you know it? Oh God, what happened to this people. There's a lot of people out there, you can find one. What kind of custom is this?

i think not, except if brothers wedding, it would not even be there.

I am not so sure on the medical parts of this discussion but I do not think that relatives should get married. I think that people should go out and meet new people and fall in love and then get married. I would think though that there would be a chance of issues medically because we all carry different genes and if they double up it may cause problems. But I guess everyone has their own beliefs and opinions and if this is what they choose to do and it is not hurting anyone then so be it. As long as everyone is an adult when they marry.

I think there is a reason for why religion and society have forbidden this to happen a long time ago.It`s called cosangvinisation ( i hope i translated well ) and it has too many genetic risks.There are grades of risks like 1 : Father - Daughter , Mother - Son , Brother - Sister. 2 : Half brother - half sister (the 2 have a common parent and the other parent is different ) 3 : between cousins . etc. People who are breeding animals also know about these problems and they also noticed the risks. And it happened for a long time in Europe with the royal families .Since they wanted to keep their fortunes they have married their kids inside their families for generations ...maybe if you will look at some european royal figures you will notice they aren`t exactly Mona Lisa`s or Don Juan`s

Although it's not forbidden by law (only first bloodline so brother with sister (even if they are adopted so not same blood) and father with daughter and son with mother) I don't think you will meet much peole over here who will jump for joy if you marry within your family. No matter how big your family is. Even if it is not we do call it incest and it's said that you have a bigger change to get a handicapped child. The last is not a fact and only the case if you have certain illnesses run into your family which gives a higher risk if both partners have that disease in their dna. But this risk is not higher if you marry a completely stranger who has it too just like you. I know in certain countries/cultures it does happen but even then many people who do live over here feel ashamed about it. Why you should be ashamed if you are married to the one you love and it's not against the law is a miracle to me. What does happen is that in certain religions kids are only allowed to marry someone with the same religion and frequently the parents are looking for that partner too. If it comes to look the same all these people do. Same blond hair, same pale (unhealthy) colour of the skin, same kind of body shape, frequently glasses as well. So I think they are somehow all one big family as well. And not the most healthy one there is. If you have a very healthy strong family those kids will be exactly the same. This is not different from what many animals do. So it depends on the kind of dna you have (or your family has) what kind of children you get. But also the age counts. There is a higher risk if one of the parents is old. No matter if this is the mother or father!

Interesting post. I've also heard that offspring from blood-related couples would have genetic defects. I'm not sure whether it's true though, at least that's what my mother always tell me. She said she knew someone who has inborn defects because her parents are first cousins. I also would personally go against this type of marriage as that would pose a risk to the health of the offspring, no matter how little the risk is. Also, incest is against the law of nature. Our body is programmed in such a way that we get attracted to a person who is outside our family circle. For instance, we tend to get attracted to the smell of perspiration of a non-family member and detest that from a family member (this was shown in a certain study).

friend if you go middle eastern country you can meet peoples they marry their first degree cousin, the reason is if they have a lot money or business growing to that family just rotating inside the family member, but base on my observations some of their kids are above normal.

In India paternal marriage is allowed only in one religion and yes its illegal.... for my opinion paternal marriages are unacceptable........