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Every state today has a statute defining eligibility for marriage, and each and every one prohibits marriages between parents and children, sisters and brothers, uncles and nieces, and aunts and nephews. Some prohibit all ancestor/descendant marriages, regardless of degree. Four states extend the prohibition to marriages between parents and their adopted children.
Twenty-four states prohibit marriages between first cousins, and another seven permit them only under special circumstances. Utah, for example, permits first cousins to marry only provided both spouses are over age 65, or at least 55 with evidence of sterility. North Carolina permits first cousins to marry unless they are "double first cousins" (cousins through more than one line). Maine permits first cousins to marry only upon presentation of a certificate of genetic counseling. The remaining nineteen states and the District of Columbia permit first-cousin marriages without restriction.
Link that Pepsei provided
Ok my example went over your head apparently. My point was...without a study, thinking something that MIGHT be true..and what IS true..are two different things. It's a MYTH that cousins have webfeet babies. Now reports show that there is only a 2% difference between normal unrelated couples. See my point? You can THINK something is one way...but without proof you really have no idea what the truth is.
I don't really care about the 2% number. I have no idea whether there are genetic defects between relative or not. I've never done any research on it. But it is fallacious--assuming the one argument is that procreation between relatives leads to problems because of genetic similarity--to equate a child born from siblings to a child born from cousins, because of genetic differences between a sibling and a cousin.
You're making it sound like he's stating some radical theory. A cousin will have the same grandparents (on one side) as you, but they will also have genes from a completely unrelated person (your aunt/uncle's spouse). A sibling, on the other hand, has the same mother as you, and the same father as you. A much higher percentage of genes will be common.
No, but if you review the data you will see that genetic similarities do not necessarily cause genetic mutations as much as it was once feared. At least you have a building block for data. I admit that the cause is possibly a bit greater between actual sister and brother, but that does not mean its some outrageous percentage. It's still possible to have healthy children between the two. Where you probably get into a greater percentage is if the family continues to be incestuous.
Either way it's sick sick sick. This case it's just an accident.
Interesting link
You're right that the percentage is not very high. It does get higher, but it's not as extreme as one would think.
BTW, how dumb can this couple be that they never talked about their childhood and realized that their mothers had the same name, their fathers had the same name, they had the same aunts and uncles, they lived in the same town, etc?
Usually when you're talking to someone and they tell you about a person/place that's familiar to you, you go into more detail about it. How couldn't they figure out the most obvious of things?
Usually when you're talking to someone and they tell you about a person/place that's familiar to you, you go into more detail about it. How couldn't they figure out the most obvious of things?
dmcowen674
No Lifer
The couple has four children, aged between 14 years and 14 months. :shocked:
Koenigsegg
Banned
What's so surprising about that? My mom and her oldest sibling are separated by 20 years.
Koenigsegg
Banned
Yes I'm Mr. big shot, I don't care about statistics, just what I think and believe because I'm a geenus.
mercanucaribe
Banned
I told you that the incest producing freaks thing was nonsense, and now a study has proven me correct.
A single generation of inbreeding isn't a big deal in places like the United States because everybody is so genetically "far" from eachother.
It would take many generations of successive inbreeding to produce genetic defects in todays population.. of course depending on the genetic status of the two you started with.
<-- Not a geneticist, just using some logic
It would take many generations of successive inbreeding to produce genetic defects in todays population.. of course depending on the genetic status of the two you started with.
<-- Not a geneticist, just using some logic
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