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Marring your cousin
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besides the obvious birth defects a child could have, what are a few other reasons why a person shouldn't marry a family member of theirs?
Please elaborate this is for an English research paper and I want to thank everyone in advance for trying to help.
Please elaborate this is for an English research paper and I want to thank everyone in advance for trying to help.
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Also marrying a first cousin is illegal.
Anyway: in a family often there are close family ties and so any subsequent relationship can be based on an abuse of power so to speak. If you have looked up to your brother or sister for many years, and respect and love them, and they try to start a sexual relationship you may feel pressured into it or whatever.
scholar.google.co.uk holds all the answers
And you might get disowned by your family.
Bummer.
I wonder if anyone has explored the reasons why it's socially unacceptable to screw your family members. Afterall, our closest living animal relatives, Bonobos, do it all the time. It's seen less as a holy expression of undying perpetual love and more of a way of keeping bonds between group members strong.
All the kings and queens of the middle ages were at it as well, because they wanted to keep the royal blood pure. I'm going to do a little bit of research now, see if I can't satiate my own curiosity whilst helping our English paper friend.
So we make our mind up based on emotions whether something is right or wrong, then find the justification for it. How interesting! Certainly explains the pro Israel camp :razz:. I will continue my search!
Not sur about this, I think it's illegal to have sex with your brother/sister even if they're adopted for example. It's a lot to do with the pressure you can put on someone by being so close to them. Same reason a teacher can't have sex with a student, even if the student is of consenting age.
But there seems to be something naturally hardwired into us that stops us from wanting these connections with our family members. And maybe the reason that it's hardwired like that is because it's not good.
Yup, my insight for the day.
:yes: Haidt, J. (2000) The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail: A Social Intuitionist Approach to Moral Judgment
I know someone that married their cousin - had three sons all perfectly healthy - BUT they did all look like clones of each other, just different sizes.
plus when the marriage end (if is does) .. well .. can't really get away from each other ..
Actually, Naturegoddess is right. As TheSite.org's factsheet on fancying a family member states:
Here's some famous people who married their cousins...
Queen Victoria (Prince Albert = first cousin)
Edward Grieg (composer) - 1st cousin
Jesse James - 1st cousin
David Lean - 1st cousin
JS Bach (composer) - 1st cousin
Albert Einstein - 1st cousin
Maslow (the humanist/psychologist) - 1st cousin
Jerry Lee Lewis -1st cousin
HG Wells - 1st cousin
Charles Darwin - 1st cousin
Rudy Guiliani - 2nd cousin
John Adams - 3rd Cousin
Thomas Jefferson - 3rd cousin
Franklin Roosevelt - 5th cousin
and there's a whole lot more out there if you spend some time on Google and wiki
Imho the biggest issue you'd have is other peoples' bigoted opinions, and if you love your partner then it shouldn't matter what other people think anyway.
:yes: I didn't know it was legal now, but it does sound weird.