Cousin Marriage....Advice

[Jal_Pari]

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Two of my first cousins got married(dad's brothers' kids). Their first child died after one week due to abnormalities. It was soo sad becuz I almost grew up with my cousins. Now they just had 2nd child who is normal. But this is the only couple who are cousins in my family. My relatives decided never to have inter-marriages again.

[gravity_killz]

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@asmaprincess

I completely agree. I mean imagine living together, on top of that girl calling him bhai and then getting married. Now, that's a little weird. If you have grown up totally away as koris said, then its fine. No difference than amrrying a stranger, except you just know this person a little more and it's safe.

islamically all nah-mehram guys should be treated as brother unless you have nikkah with a na-mehram!!

[korisn]

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we have ALOT of second cousin marriages in our family, with one generation gap...
example, my dad and my nani are first cousins.... my fiance and my mom are first cousins.

Its kinda freaky cuz all these women are technically married to their mamu's ..... would that be considered gross in western culture?

anyways, my fiance's mother, mother-in-law, older sister, bhabhi and now me are all married to their "mamu".... weird....

[S02]

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^ we have some of those in our family too.

[asmaprincess]

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@mAd_ScIeNtIsT

Second cousins is much less risky than first cousins. Second cousins have much more genetic diversity so the risk is minimal.

Phew. Now that's a relief.

[asmaprincess]

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@gravity_killz

islamically all nah-mehram guys should be treated as brother unless you have nikkah with a na-mehram!!

Of course. But me personally calling someone "bhaia" after their name, and then all of a sudden just calling their name without the "bhaia" is like...ok dats weird.

[AnGeL_EyEs]

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@nia_khan

not too sure about the medical part but i can surely tell you one thing..

*too much drama *

i agree with that. i see that happening a lot. having ur khala as a mother in law is sometimes far worse than having a stranger become ur mother in law.

[gravity_killz]

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@asmaprincess

Of course. But me personally calling someone "bhaia" after their name, and then all of a sudden just calling their name without the "bhaia" is like...ok dats weird.

i am not saying that its the most easy thing to do ... but all i am suggesting is that they action should be based on islamic logic only. baqi aap jis say marzi shadi karein :D

[Rukhsarbibi]

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@Sara516

Like Mama said, you can never ever know for sure.. marriage between first cousin may have healthy kids and marriage between "strnagers" may give you unhealthy kids..

yep! it all depends on genetics and what recessive alleles may combine to become prominent and result in a fatal disease. I have seen quite a few cases of unrelated couples having kids who died after a couple of years due to a genetic disorder and then some cousins having kids with fatal genetic disorders too.

[_pyari_sii_bachi]

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@korisn

we have ALOT of second cousin marriages in our family, with one generation gap... example, my dad and my nani are first cousins.... my fiance and my mom are first cousins.

Its kinda freaky cuz all these women are technically married to their mamu's ..... would that be considered gross in western culture?

anyways, my fiance's mother, mother-in-law, older sister, bhabhi and now me are all married to their "mamu".... weird....

huh

[amelie]

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@seleucus

Dear guppies…a friend of mine is thinking about marrying with first cousin but is worried about repercussions of cousin-marriage as proclaimed by medical scientists.he is in dire need of some advice on this issue .serious debate is here anticipated .

If her family does NOT have a history of certain disorders AND this is not a repeated several generational inter marrying, etc…it really does not raise the risk genetic disease. there was a study done of the Punjab/japan areas where cousin marriages are common and the researchers found an insignificant different in genetic disease increases in these populations vs. non-cousin.