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 .
When we were kids, I thought my first cousin once removed (my mother's cousin) was so dog on cute! I followed that boy around everywhere! I don't think I would go there though; too many reeee's in my family as is. Don't need to guarantee my kids come out with issues...


ETA: OK, read the OP in full. No children hey... Hmmmmm... It's not like we grew up together or anything soooooo... :lol:

A cousin I grew up with, now that would be beyond gross!
 
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LovinLocks said:
Okay, apparently you haven't read the thread :rolleyes: Er um, if that were the case I wouldn't confess it here.
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No need to get salty :lachen: It was late, so I skipped some posts. My bad. I didn't think anyone would post it on LHCF. When you said you're (unfortunately) married, I wasn't sure if that was your way of saying you married a cousin or something. Tis all
 
LovinLocks said:
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???
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I think that's called 1st cousin twice removed, since the grandchildren are the same generation. :yep:
 
I would consider it, but only if it was a distant cousin. Plus my family has so many half-siblings/step kids, etc that we'd only be half-distant cousins. :lachen:
 
^^^ No, name those parts of the country please! That way, we know what areas to avoid :lachen:
 
LOL!! Let's just say that in some states, when you apply for a marriage license, there is a question on the form that asks about "relationship" and this is where you explain how you and your fiance are related to each other!!!
 
Yuck puke yuck but there are a lot of cultures that do marry cousins to each other. Especially like in India and the Middle East.
 
~*Tigget*~ said:
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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:lachen::lachen::lachen: Lol at your response.

I think that is so disgusting. Would never do it.
 
It's whatever, like Wonderstar said, I live on a small island and we are all pretty much related especially because we count like 8th and 9th cousins and stuff. I am always finding new cousins and people know who my family is just from looking at me.

Some facts: If we share great grandparents' but have different grandparents we are second cousins Our parents are first cousins and your mother/father is my first cousin once removed.

Despite popular opinions, there is hardly any risk for deformities or mental illness as a result of cousins having children. Children of non-related couples have a 2-3% risk of birth defects, as opposed to first cousins having a 4-6% riskSecond cousins have little, if any increased chance of having children with birth defects, per the book "Clinical Genetics Handbook”– courtesy of the March of Dimes.
http://chemistry.typepad.com/the_great_mate_debate/2007/08/cousins-marryin.html

This has been common throughout history and I really don't think it is as big of a deal as people make it out to be.
 
LovinLocks said:
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???
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The g'fathers kids are first cousins and their children are first cousins twice removed. A lot of black people will say that they are thrird cousins, but that's not technically correct.
 
Amarachi, I haven't heard any whites mexicans or others say anything about the cousins twice removed stuff, maybe it's not common around here. :perplexed

Is this common in other areas?
 
So then they are 2nd cousins since they share the same great grandparents, yes, no? 2nd cousins are the same as 1st twice removed? That chart is a lil confusing.
 
I would marry a cousin who was super distant, I mean like our great-great-great-great grandparents were cousins. But any close relation, nope. My mom and dad's family is from the same small town, I'm pretty sure some people intermingled so they are probably cousins somewhere down the line but it's not a close relation, because when I go to either family reunion I don't see the same people there.
 
TCatt86 said:
I would marry a cousin who was super distant, I mean like our great-great-great-great grandparents were cousins. But any close relation, nope. My mom and dad's family is from the same small town, I'm pretty sure some people intermingled so they are probably cousins somewhere down the line but it's not a close relation, because when I go to either family reunion I don't see the same people there.
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I think that happened alot in the south. My mother has a lot of double cousins, meaning they are related to her on her mothers and fathers side.
 
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