Understanding basic genetic principles will help with this question. Following is a transcript of the video. They all married their first cousins. After all, mating with a close relative passes on bad genes that lead to deadly genetic mutations, right? Today marrying your first cousin is illegal in 24 US states. But for most of Western history, people had to marry whoever lived nearby, which oftentimes meant marrying within the extended family. In fact, between , the average married couple was fourth cousins.
So, they had the same great-great-great-grandparents. The health risk of cousin marriages has been grossly increased. Today marrying a cousin has been banned in many countries including 24 US states. Despite the facts which are medically proven, most of the people marry within their extended families.
Does a child born between two cousins have a greater chance of having birth defects? Understanding the basic genetic rules and principles will help us with this question.
If we speak genetically, it means that they shared 0. In this case, if there are two copies of the defected genes, the offspring will adopt this disease. But if one of the parents is carrier of this disease and the other is non carrier, then there is no risk of getting sick. If the cousin marriages continue generations after generations, there are more and more risks of getting the genetic diseases.
It is like circulating defective genes within the family tree, rather than introducing new genes and building up unique genetic pool. To calculate the risk and the outcome, it depends on several circumstances. What will happen if both grandparents are the carriers of the same disease vs one?
What if one of the children is carrier vs none at all? Hold on to your personal feelings; why impose them on others in a free society? Einstein: This is the ultimate argument made in support of banning cousin marriages. It's so obviously wrong that "You don't have to be an Einstein to figure it out. Myths are best broken by data. The fact that 20 percent of global marriages take place between first cousins and most societies, including Europe and Canada, consider cousin marriages to be legal should give us a pause.
I personally know of Americans -- from different backgrounds -- who have either married their cousin and kept the fact as hidden as possible or are in an intimate relationship with one. One could argue whether there is any moral or scientific equivalence between same sex marriages and cousin marriages, but our society's apathy to the latter's "closet" is appalling. I have learned my lesson. America has no appetite to have a rational conversation over the topic of cousin marriages. And I am certainly not having this discussion in the barber shop again.
Because after all the research for this article, I realized that actually, you have to be an Einstein in order to believe that there is nothing wrong with cousin marriages. Faheem Younus is a clinical associate professor at the University of Maryland. He is the founder of Muslimerican. He can be reached at talk Muslimerican. My grandfather and her grandmother are brothers and sisters.
So me and her are second cousin. I want to know if marrying your second cousin is allowed here in the Philippines. My other problem is, it is acceptable? Do you think her parents will allow me to marry my love one? One third of all handicapped children in Uk are born to Pakistani parenst, and a large number of the parents are first cousins. This is a great piece. I think it reflects poorly on a website to post personal critiques such as these.
If anyone is mad about the article they should write their own. These people should be supporting you- not spewing sexist bullshit. Are we related? IM a white Canadian , I married a Pakistani. One brother is a permanent resident in a mental hospital. The father has a club hand , he is 82 and is extremely intelligent , the mother is 74 and is living a horrible existence. My opinion is that yes first cousin marriage may be o. The British studies show that the risk of genetic diseases is rather 10 times as high, partly because many families have practiced cousin marriages over several generations :.
British Pakistanis, half of whom marry a first cousin a figure that is universally agreed , are 13 times more likely to produce children with genetic disorders than the general population, according to Government-sponsored research.
One in ten children from these cousin marriages either dies in infancy or develops a serious life-threatening disability. While British Pakistanis account for three per cent of the births in this country, they are responsible for 33 per cent of the 15, to 20, children born each year with genetic defects.
Let me add that the author did discuss this, but since its generational it could even more than say a double cousin, it could be like marrying a one and a half sibling, since if your parents,grandparents,and great-grandparents married their cousin.
Is she of my same blood or not? This article was well written and interesting. The information contained within had a fresh twist on the subject of cousin marriages opposed to other information that can be readily viewed on the internet. My take on the article is that the writer has a positive vested interest. Thank you for putting it out there for us!
Additionally, the comments made thereafter are from people who also have a vested interest, although not always positive. As a person from the United States with European ancestry, of Christian faith, and no known knowledge of cousins marrying cousins in my specific family history, from what information I have found, I believe that amongst many, many cultures since the history of all of our human existence, there have been cousin marriages.
Do your homework here people. Personally, as an over 50, divorced, mother of two grown-children, educated at the Masters level and a grounded professional, I have seen the U. I am currently dating a first cousin once removed. Many people would refer to us as second cousins. I did not grow up knowing him. I knew of him as a child, but then he left the area I grew up in and he became a desert storm war hero, military career man, and a mental health police officer residing far away from me for 35 years in another geographical location the United States.
Three years ago we unexpectedly ran into each other and have been getting along together ever since that time. Have we told everyone we know that we are related? You all know the answer of why we have not shared this information… I have a different married name. Honestly, our lives are complicated because of our association, but also, ours has been one the most meaningful relationships I have ever had in my life.
How does everyone in our separate families handle it? That is a mixed bag with challenges all the time- most all of our older family members handle it well and want us to be happy together. Younger family members, because of the stigma that goes along with the concept handle things somewhat poorly. Will we ever marry???? Only time will tell. We have beared a well boy kid and strong one,my quiz is,am i wrong to marry her? These cousin marriages ought to be forbidden. My grandparents were first cousins.
He drank like a fish and grandmother lived in poverty all her life. He also verbally abused her. They produced one son who had the intelligence of an idiot. In his later years, he became quite the nuisance and had to go to state mental care.
For ten years, he lived a miserable existence. I know, this problem can surface in any family, but I do believe that low intelligence is passed on this way. None of his siblings got past the forth or fifth grade.
Just leave the kids out of it. I would wager a guess that the rampant alcoholism of your grandfather had more to do with the miserable lives of his wife and children than marrying his first cousin did. Chances are pretty good that if your grandfather was as much of a drunk as your post suggests that any wife and children of his would have had a miserable life anyway. Basically, it seems to me that the environment those children grew up in contributed more to their adult lives than their father marrying his cousin.
This is the exact same scenario a girl I went to school with faced — an alcoholic abusive father and a passive mother who was too scared to fight. Cousin-marriage has nothing to do with it. Alcohol is the problem, in her case and from the sounds of it, in your case as well. This article was refreshing to read. And so were the comments from the readers. The internet is full of biases and harsh statements by people opposing marriages between first cousins.
But Its nice to see a different side. All family members are happily married outside the family circle and we dont have any difficult genetic history. My family also does not consider it a good thing for cousins to marry because of the fact that they are raised as brothers and sisters.
I am an indian but I live outside India. I believe its mainly because we never grew up together. We meet for ten twenty days maximum in a year or two and then have no contact. I could have fallen for anyone- after all I am a university graduate with very high scores and scholarships. But my choice makes me rethink my own IQ. I could have fallen for anyone and I fell for him. We know that attraction happens for various reasons — when you find something you seek in a partner in that person or when that person helps you come out of a trauma.
Both these reasons apply to me falling for him. Keeping it locked hurts because I have no courage to face intense battles that may follow after my confession. You might say love is when you fight for the person you love or want. I believe its best to safegaurd that person from critism than be selfish. Anyway, thank you all for your reasoning and logic. Its nice to know that there may be few birth defects.
It must be really hard for you. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will. Call me old fashioned and this is just my opinion, but if someone knowingly marries their kin its still incest and has a moral effect on that person.
In my opinion it defies nature and poses a potential danger toin a child being born to the parents in all fairness i believe it should be avoided.
Kissing cousins itsnt the norm and only a select few choose to participate in it. Imbreeding is wrong and any way you try it just cannot be justified. And stating incest defies nature is just plain dumb.
And if you claim imbreeding is wrong please cite evidence. My daughter is subject to haemocromatosis, a condition arising where both her parents were carriers of a recessive gene, her father and I were not related in any way but we both came from Anglo-Celtic back grounds. He was negative about the concept of cousins marrying, but I had point out he was the product of multiple of these, although mainly in the 17th and 18th century.
These occurred for the same reasons as above; they were the main group that socially mixed. That and they wanted to keep the dowries in the family! Would explain why the line never produced another genius! If we were talking computers and you married two identical source codes with ideological histories written in not so different languages it would produce spaghetti and meatballs, whether the code could run is not the problem the errors produced will have your programmers going bonkers.
To the point they would just scrap the code base and start over from scratch.
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