Cousin marriages - ghar ki murghi??

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@Miss_Noland

Cousin marriages are so distasteful. Apart from all the possible hereditary diseases, what else do you get out of such marriage? If I were you, I wouldn’t talk about it either. Wait.. I wouldn’t have married my cousin.

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@Miss_Noland

Those of you saying just be yourself…well how would you feel if you got into a hot debate about incest with a non-desi. You do know cousin marriages only exist in Muslim countries, right? It’s different when people willingly get involved in incest in the west where it’s illegal. WE MADE IT LEGAL!

its legal, our religion permisses us to marry our cousins. If cousin marriages automatically lead to deformities, disabilities when their offspring are born, then how do you explain the same disabilities in gorey, surely they cant be marrying their cousins…

also if people get their facts stright, genes hardly come into the factor…for downs syndrome..which is probly the most asked about and tested for during pregnancy, has NOTHING TO DO with genes…

and to be honest, if you can marry your cousin, you should be able to tell people as well. if they dont understand, who cares? do you really care that much.shame on you.

Genes do come into it. especially where there has been consecutive cousin marriages gerneration upon generation. In the UK in some town and cities where there is a large Pakistani population like Luton and Bradford, the special needs schools have a disproportionately high number of Pakistani children in them. Also, in those places doctors are coming across many new forms of genetic abnormalities in babies born to our people. Do not dismiss the genetic implicatons.