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Should Marriage Between First Cousins Be Banned?
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What part does the Elephant play in deciding whether or not to introduce a law which restricts human instincts and forbids some people who love each other from committing themselves to lifelong lovey-dovey fidelity? Are we proposing a form of apartheid, or Starmerish fascism/ultra-anti-wokeism?
Did I just get lost there?
Free speech but no free love?
Of course it is, bhg. The problem is, yet again, cultural. Cousins in western cultures have sometimes married - dicey, but generally enough 'other' genetic material prevents disasters. Some royal/aristocratic families suffered - keeping possessions/power in the family I suppose.
It's a growing problem here because of the major increase in the size of the S. Asian Muslim communities. Cousin marriage is very, very common and the whole community is at risk - gene pool not big enough.
In the 1980s I visited a local 'School for the Deaf in Bradford - it had been there for years and years, I'd visited for an open day fundraiser as a kid myself - this time it was crammed with multiply-handicapped Pakistani children for whom deafness was just one of their problems. The staff were in despair.
First cousins marrying is dicey, but when their parents were also first cousins and any new imports from Pakistan for arranged marriages are also cousins...etc.... etc......
I think I've mentioned before a 14 yr. old ESN Pakistani girl who disappeared from school and had been sent beck to Pakistan to marry a 40 year old cousin whose wife had died.
It seems harsh, but I would vote to forbid marriage of such relatives for everyone. If they breed without marriage (unlikely in a Muslim culture) - then they must accept responsibility for the care of their offspring, whether handicapped or not.
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