Marrying cousin testimony video

Darwin is a perfect example of the problems caused by multiple-generation close-relative marriages. Charles Darwin’s parents were first cousins, and the Wedgewood family had multiple generations of close-relative marriages. When families intermarry for multiple generations, the odds that aren’t so bad the first time rapidly increase, until you get the health problems and lack of ability to reproduce like Darwin’s kids or like much of the royal families of Europe around 1900. For all of the many flaws of the eugenics movements, the effort to constrain close-family marriage isn’t a bad idea.

The fact that there are no known cases where evolution has elected to prevent interbreeding between cousins in any species indicates that human interference in this regard is not well thought out. Only the perceived negative effects of cousin marriage is sprouted and seldom the benefits.
For example: from NESCent at:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/nesc-wnm042512.php
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“One surprising and oft-neglected advantage of marriage between close biological relatives is a phenomenon called purging, in which disease genes are exposed and removed from the gene pool.
Thanks to purging, marriage between close relatives in early human populations would have kept the prevalence of genetic disorders low”
———— Fighting against nature is never a great idea. Whatever the good intentions, in the end, banning cousin marriage will increase heritable genes in the human gene-pool; and possibly other negative effects we do not yet understand. Therefore: marry your cousin! It will benefit your grandchildren and the human race!

The problem is though that it leads to very low IQs as well as the physical problems, which could well be at a sub-clinical level. This lowered intelligence explains the obvious failure of certain societies in the modern world.

The idea of lower intelligence when a child is born to close cousins is not always true. Just as there may be recessive genes that carry some disorder, there may also be recessive genes that have strong phenotypes. Here in RI many of the families intermarried with first cousins in the early generations but there’s no record I have found of any problem. These people were strong enough to sail across an ocean, prosper in an unknown land, and survive the various scourges to which they were exposed as well as harsh climates. They passed down those strong genes associated with survival, unlike the houses of Europe that intermarried and passed down hemophilia.

If you measure the intelligence of a country, ie their literature, engineering contributions, art, etc you can see a clearly just how much genetics matter in the world. Hundreds of years of cousins marrying cousins has produced a race of lower intelligence people.

In the few time where 1st cousins married (in a few branches) of my family the IQ was much higher than the average. Most were Engineers, Doctors or well respected Business Leaders.

that isn’t true. my grandparents from my mothers side are cousins, and my two uncles are both doctors, and me and my cousins are all pretty smart. in fact, my average grade last year was 97%. it wont get much better than that.

Cousin marriage increases the risk of genetic disorders, albiet a small increase of 3%, but not worth the risk,however if your gene pool is great, then its different, in iceland folks married their second cousins throughout generations without a problem,infact they have superior genes some say. Banning any marriage due to children’s genetic possibility is silly reasoning, we don’t ban folks with down syndrom,tay sachs,etc from marrying others with that gene.

Human interference is well thought out, inbreeding has been proven to show over multiple generations will cause recessive gene disorders that could become active in various groups, and that gene variation is good once in a while even if it is not all the time. As a warning sign, More so to say continue this inbreeding and face the consequences of mother nature. source: http://helorimer.people.ysu.edu/inbred.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2080450/ Also these practices devalue people and oppress others..
Why do I say oppress others? We can look to groups that still practice relative marriages, or cousin marriages over time and see the devaluing of women, forced arranged marriages, child marriages, and domestic violence is widely prevalent. I am strictly against forced arranged marriages, forced marriages continue to allow for such devastation in countries where they are practiced. And does not allow free will of the human being. Humans are not cattle to be traded like animals. A lot of these youth are social conditioned from a young age to marry a relative, or cousin or forced to marry someone against there will or emotionally blackmailed. Relatives and Parents have there own hidden agenda, in my opinion History pov:
This is where the fault lies here, where groups misuse mother nature to inbreed and “keep it in the family” greed and money driven societies give rise. That is the curse, and it can be looked on of the pass as human history “always” repeats itself and this is fact and one thing we can learn about history. That such evils or social evils in civilization always fall, and create division and corruption. if we look into human history, humans were not widely dispersed as we are today, groups and communities lived in small communities which made them intolerant to outsiders, however some groups could have been more welcoming and vice versa.
there is no doubt that survival of the fittest was at its point of the pass. However with modernization today, there is no need to continue such backward outmoded practices. The pass women had no value, she had no say to such marriages and agreed or else was punished by law of the customs of the tribe, this is universal all over the world that women were second to men. Now that being said, clever as our ancestors were they inbreed in order to populate the earth, we actually have to thank them otherwise the human race could have gone to nothing, however that is of the pass and groups moved for water supply or food resources, trade, resources, etc, people did come in contact with groups and mated and had relations outside of immediate groups, and children were born outside of groups to populate the land. Know one on this earth is “pure blood”… stretching so far back one cannot even begin to understand how many people mated where and stayed and some continued to travel..
anyway,
Times have changed and there is a reason why this modernization has happened and that people can widely communicate today, not only is this outstanding to understand early marriages and early practices of humans on earth, it also shows that the time’s today is pointing us in the direction to better understand everyone and come to conclusion that we are all similar and different in many ways, and shows that it is now our duty to become tolerant of others and not vicious towards outsiders, and celebrate our differences, similarities and uniqueness. We also can look at uncontacted tribes today that continue to live in isolation, there behavior for various reasons is prevent contact of outside humans , they are fear of outsiders because people always fear the unknown of what is outside of there immediate group over time, or fear of oppression, slavery etc, But what could have created such fears? Mostly fear is out of the unknown, not understanding of others, fear of oppression, slavery, what could they do to us? These kinds of thoughts, or they think they are better than us? Or we are better than them? This is how we think, we do it, whether we want to admit to it or not, unconsciously we migrate to people closely to us
this also could be the reason such intolerance to people that are a different races etc, humans of the pass thought “to protect mine only” for “SURVIVAL” this could be why such practices became of rise? Knowone wanted outsiders coming in and destroying the clan ways, per say, that is why I think biologically we as humans fear and segregate unknowingly from people that do not look, act, like us, because that is our ancestors pass of preventing harm to the clan, it is biological instinct to protect what is mine. Just my two cents on this matter

We came from a gene pool group of perhaps only a thousand people out of Africa 200,000 ago after all.

DISAPPOINTING………U HAVE WELL PRESENTED THE PRESENT EXTANT STATUS OF COUSIN MRRGS WELL, BUT FLOUNDERED ON REASONS WHEREAS YOUR TOPIC IS NOT ON ACTUAL STATUS BUT THE “WHY” OF THE MATTER. PARTICULARLY, U R HARPING ON SCIENTIFIC CAUSES, BUT THATS MUCH LATER. THE SOCIOLOGICAL CAUSES INCLUDING PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS AV BEEN LEFT UNTOUCHED. I M SURE THAT THERE IS MUCH MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE IN THIS COMPLEX PHENOMENON. WE EXPECT ALWAYS MUCH BETTER FRM U, MELISSA.

Not a lot of information here. I would have enjoyed a little bit of a fresh look at all the infamous stories of consanguine practises. Perhaps a modern look at alpine cretinism or at the Bourbon chin?
As far as I know, marying cousins is about keeping wealth in the family and strangers out. This tends to makes it a multi generation practice – which I’m not willing to believe is that harmless.
Thanks anyway, I guess someone had a valentine to tend to…
Looking forward to your next post.

Well-researched and splendidly written. Sadly, I suppose that a few folks convinced they “know” a lot of things that aren’t actually based in fact so much as misguided belief will have much to say in response. For those folks, all of the facts won’t matter; a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.

Baroness Flather (born in Pakistan herself) said because of ‘inbreeding’, members of the ethnic group are 13 TIMES more likely than the rest of the UK population to have disabled children.
As for the article being well researched, it isn’t. The author states that study after study debunk the myth of inbreeding. Not one reference is given. All you have to do is speak to any geneticist or pig-farmer and they’ll tell you the dire consequences of cousin marriages especially if repeated generation after generation. But just go to the hospitals in the UK with large inbred populations and you can see its devastating effects.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were FIRST cousins not second cousins. Albert’s father and Victoria’s mother were brother and sister.

The cross-cousin and parallel cousin was interesting. I was looking for these English words.
Not only in Pakistan, but the entire Indian sub-continent (India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and probably Burma) has the practice of marrying cousins. However there are cultural differences. In the northern Indian states, cousin marriages are itself discouraged. It is predominant in South India –
a. Boy can marry father’s sister’s daughter
b. Boy can marry mother’s brother’s daughter
c. Boy can marry sister’s daughter As rightly put by @Guillaume, it is more about keeping wealth in the family and strangers out.

Yes it is more about wealth, in fact there is a reason that cousin marriage is on the upward trend in certain arab countries, where there is more wealth, and possibly more “modern” exposure to outside cultures, such as in the uae, and other arab countries where its more international to an extent despite autocratic and strict rules. As far as the cross cousin,it existed partially because your mother’s dad could have cheated with your mother’s sister, but it was less likely that he would cheat with mother’s sister-in-law. Thus lowering the possibly of siblings marrying each-other if say you wanted to marry your cousin but you could actually be marrying a half-sister.

In India cousin marriage from maternal side are quite common.
A mother’s son can marry his uncles daughter(mother’s brothers daughter) but not vice versa.
Other relationship marriages are considered taboo