[Closed] Radio 2 now: Marrying your 1st cousin!

There was a program on TV the other day about it. Aparently we are a bit to PC to point out to certain ethnic minoritorys that it causes medical problems. The hospital in Bradford was full of them, but a lot of the local comunity denied it of course.

Sometimes we should call a spade a spade and put up with upsetting the ill educated. I feel sorry for the poor kids born with problems because their parents were force to marry cousins or their tradition lead to that behaviour.

Sure is honeybun.

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Cousins are ok. Pretty much everyone else is not.

A man may not marry his:

Mother (also step-mother, former step-mother, mother-in-law, former mother-in-law, adoptive mother or former adoptive mother)
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Daughter (also step-daughter, former step-daughter, daughter-in-law, former daughter-in-law, adoptive daughter or former adoptive daughter)
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Sister (also half-sister)
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Father's mother (grandmother)
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Mother's mother (grandmother)
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Father's father's former wife (step-grandmother)
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Mother's father's former wife (step-grandmother)
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Son's daughter (granddaughter)
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Daughter's daughter (granddaughter)
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Wife's son's daughter (step-granddaughter)
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Wife's daughter's daughter (step-granddaughter)
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Son's son's wife (grandson's wife)
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Daughter's son's wife (grandson's wife)
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Father's sister (aunt)
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Mother's sister (aunt)
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Brother's daughter (niece)
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Sister's daughter (niece)

A woman may not marry her:

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Father (also step-father, former step-father, father-in-law, former father-in-law, adoptive father or former adoptive father)
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Son (also step-son, former step-son, son-in-law, former son-in-law, adoptive son or former adoptive son)
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Brother (also half-brother or step-brother)
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Father's father (grandfather)
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Mother's father (grandfather)
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Mother's mother's former husband (step-grandfather)
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Father's mother's former husband (step-grandfather)
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Son's son (grandson)
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Daughter's son (grandson)
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Husband's daughter's son (step grandson)
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Husband's son's son (step grandson)
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Son's daughter's husband (granddaughter's husband)
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Daughter's daughter's husband (granddaughter's husband)
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Father's brother (uncle)
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Mother's brother (uncle)
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Brother's son (nephew)
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Sister's son (nephew)

In Scotland, a man may not marry his great-grandmother or great-granddaughter and a woman may not marry her great-grandfather or great-grandson.

it is legal and the result is you see lots of consanguinity when you run genetic analaysis of certain population groups.

Some stuff on the "Bradford" effect a couple of years ago I remembered reading about.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7404730.stm

Surely if the royal family have any use, it's to show the damage that inbreeding can do.

cooroo - since when could you not marry a non-blood relative like your mother-in-law?
(absolutley hypothetically speaking of course... *shudders* )

Just reading up on this. 10% of marriages world wide are cousin marriages... of my own, One is about the size of a small moon, one is 10 years my senior, one is 6 month my junior, but gay as a window, and one's a bloke...

Hey ho...

one is 6 month my junior, but gay as a window, and one's a bloke...

If that's the same person you could still have a crack at it.

Some married cousins who lived next door to my mum produced 2 very poorly children. The eldest a boy, grew up with severe learning difficulties and died in his late teens. The daughter had several small disabilities, cleft lip, walking problems, very bad eyesight etc. I used to look out for her at school as she was bullied during lunch time.

I have a verrrry fit first cousin....

DD - its legal in the west country you know. Fill yer wellie-boots!

Legal? It's bloody compulsory. Unfortunately she's in Manchester. 🙁 Very tidy though.

cooroo you can marry your step brother I know somone who has [ her Mum his Dad - they also had kids betweent them - the parents and the step kids] they were on telly Jeremy Kyle type thingy as well + papers... Perfectly legal
They own banjos and they chew straw

junky - it's probably a catholic thing 😉

you can marry your step brother I know somoen who has they were on telly Jeremy Kyle

Surely that counts as punishment for crimes against humanity?

i would like to marry the wifes 3 1st cousins (triplets)...........is that legal.............. 😉

5 yrs ago I ananlysed some stats:

Muslim newborns were 3% of total U.K. births
But they contributed to 30% of congential defects.

If they want to practise this behaviour of cousin loving then let them breed themselves out lol

is drunken sex with a cousin alright? 😳

Frankenstein

Seems like a high % of congential birth due to Muslims.

UK births. 700000pa. with 1% congenital defects = 7000pa

Muslim births. 3% of 700000 = 21000.

30% of 7000 = 2100

Hence 1:10 muslim births would have to have congenital defects. Doesn't seem possible.

I was asked that too and supplied papers for the stats evidence.

I do think they should be offered councelling but it can a difficult tradition to break.

And no not all Muslims will do that as Muslim friends said it was gross while another fell in love with his first cousin.

Where is Jerry Springer?