Family Love

Would You Marry A Relative

  • Yes

    Votes: 2 2.3%

  • "H" Naw

    Votes: 81 94.2%

  • Maybe (please explain)

    Votes: 3 3.5%
  • Total voters
    86
  • Poll closed .
LovinLocks

LovinLocks

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Would you marry a cousin?

I am sure there are those that would need all types of parameters to answer this question. Okay so here are some off the top of my head:

  • Would it depend upon how close the cousin is, i.e., (first, second, third, etc.)? If you really get down to it and consider the creation account we're all related.
  • Genetically speaking we know that closeness may affect offspring. But, what if you were not going to have children? If you take away the child factor, would you then marry a cousin?
  • Would others' opinion sway your decision? In other words, if this person treated you like the queen/princess that you are in every way, would you push him away because of what other's may think and say?
 
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Oh wow, I can't even fix my brain to entertain the idea. Although there is one of my cousins that I believe has had a 'crush' on me since we were little. I speak and give him a hug when I see him but I don't even like to be around him, he talks about how pretty I am too much.

ETA: He's incredibly handsome too, and has a nice body and we are around the same age.
 
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Kissing cousins? I couldn't date one of my cousins I've grown up with, I have a LOT of cousins. But I did date a step-cousin once. His stepfather and my mother are cousins. When he came to my house to ask my mother if he could take me out she asked are the important questions. We started dating and it later came out that his mother had married my mothers cousin and you would have sworn the world had ended. Anyway, I kept dating him until I didn't want to anymore and that was it. So really he was my step-cousin but even if he was my cousin and not a close cousin I still prob would have continued to date him. I don't think 13th 14th cousins should not matter that much.
 
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The only way I could date a cousin is if we met in adulthood at a distant family reunion and we were like 4th cousins. My cousins that I've grown up with, gross!
 
Nah!

As long as we are related, we are off limits!

What further put me off are the risks of deformity when you have kids. Experienced it when I worked at a primary school - not nice.
 
Duchesse said:
The only way I could date a cousin is if we met in adulthood at a distant family reunion and we were like 4th cousins. My cousins that I've grown up with, gross!
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4th is to close for me. It's like my 3rd cousins child. That would mean one of our parents were 1st cousins.
 
see its not only me...the rest of my family would never allow it! I could never marry a cousin.
 
Without reading the post(s)...WTH kin'na question is that. :lol: Now I will go read what say u



w/ one eybrow raised....HELL NAH!!!!! Where is this coming from. Family can not marry family. I know we in a new generation and all....but dang someone draw the line somewhere
 
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Okay, so, help me figure this out:

Two grandfathers who are brothers, they have children. Then, their children have children!!!! What cousins does that make the children??? :spinning:

Did that make sense???
 
That is absolutely disgusting. People might believe the myth that there's a shortage of men but damn! It aint never that bad to feel the need to hunch on your own blood. Aint no way in the world. :nono:

Nasty alligators & crocodiles. :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf:
 
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There's actually a debate about this in Sweden right now, since we have so many immigrants from the Middle East, where cousin marriage is seen as something good. In my country, children from the Middle East are unfortunately highly over represented among special needs children.

It's a delicate matter, because doctors don't want to come off as racist or prejudice but still want them to understand the risks. I recently saw a tv documentary about it. Some of those parents didn't even know that it could affect their children negatively.

Did you know that for instance, in Baghdad, almost 50% of married couples are between relatives? (Mainly first or second cousins.)

They have the same problem in Norway, where they have a lot of Pakistani immigrants.

The royal houses of Europe were traditionally made up of cousin marriages. Our king's parents were second cousins. Unfortunately, I think it affected his level of intelligence a little bit :perplexed

My answer is No. I couldn't do it. It's not good to give your children duplicate dna and potential problems.

It might work in the first generation, but when families marry cousins in generation after generation that will definately lead to a weakening of the population.

It used to happen here too in the past, in remote areas...
 
Making sure we're on the same page now. Remember the opening thread stated:

Genetically speaking we know that closeness may affect offspring. But, what if you were not going to have children? If you take away the child factor . . .
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So, the kid thing should not even come up into the mix for purposes here.
 
They say blood thicker than water:grin:. Anyways 2 of my cousins got married in 07' and they seem very happy. They are the grandchildren of a brother and sister but they didn't grow up together. Family didn't like it at all. I ain't gonna lie I thought he was fine when I first saw him at a family reunion:blush: but I came to my senses- he's family, close family YUCK:nono:. They got together like 7 years after (and now they claim they didn't know they were related although they were both there!). I think has accepted the decision now...we just want her to be happy.

SO's deceased grandmother shared the same surname as me. To this day no one has told us that we are 'related'. We're both locals so we must be related somehow although way down the line (don't tell him I said so:look:).
 
No way in hell...I don't care if you're third, fourth etc. I would still look at you as family and my own blood, even if weren't on speaking terms. Thus, I can't see you in a romantic way. One of my third (?) cousins did have a crush on me when we were much younger (13-14) and I thought it was really gross. I had a friend whose parents were distant cousins and that didn't particularly disturb me but I couldn't do it myself.
 
I was told it's 2nd. Grandparents- siblings, children of siblings- 1st cousins, grandchildren of siblings-2nd cousins. Either way still to close, yuck!
 
i technically could since i was adopted.

except im not attracted to white males, so theres that. my cousins all look alike to me anyway...
 
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