I have noticed many people do not like to talk about their family diseases.
One does not necessarily have to be having that disease, but his/her parents and/or grand parents could be having it, which to an extent increases an individual’s risk of contracting it.
I have noticed many people do not like to talk about their family diseases or often deny it in front of others fearing that their son and/or daughter may not get good proposals, as our society is intolerant to it.
You may choose to marry a perfectly healthy individual with perhaps no family disease. However, he/she can later on develop a heart disease, diabetes, arthritis or any other such diseases.
Afterall, it’s all in the Hands of Allah (SWT). Who are we to turn down a proposal or look down upon an individual who has family disease(s).
My dad's side has diabetes and my dad's father died of a heart attack. We've been inheriting the hair loss problem from both my dad's dad and my mom's dad.
Abhi bhi kisi larki ko mera rishta qabool ho tou please mujhe PM kar dein, shukriya.
The presence of the highlighted word deeply worries me.
Someone with a history of a family disease, however, is statistically more likely yo develop it than someone without it, since they often have genetic causes. In other words, the physical flaw in your biochemistry that will develop later into a condition such as diabetes or heart illness is likely to be there in every single cell in your body even before you are even born.
Right now, the only measure the common man has available to see if the flaw is actually there is through seeing whether your family has had it too.
For example. I can tell already that any daughters I might have will have a 12.5% - 25 % chance of developing breast cancer, through tracking the progression of the underlying genetics in my family history.
Someone who knows that may be uncomfortable with marrying their daughter to me, instead preferring a person who is less likely to have cancerous offspring though not carrying any genes that cause breast cancer.
Wait until genetic testing becomes widespread and cheap. THAT will revolutionise the arranged marriage market, you’ll get aunties bitch-slapping each other over who gets the good genes into their families…
dude, we’re talking about pakistanis - comon - we’re all prone to heart attacks, and diabetes. Many other conditions as well, most likely. I’ve got plenty of heart disease and diabetes running along my father’s side, just like shikra - I bet a lot of guppies do.
Knowing my luck, I’ll probably be inheriting them as well :k:
I never realized both heart attacks and diabetes are fairly common amongst Pakistanis.
Mad_scientist: I would have to agree with your calculations regarding the increased risk of contracting family diseases, but I still think it’s despicable to reject someone on this basis or for aunties and other crazy people to look down upon anyone for this reason.
I read an article that stated that South Asians (Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis) all carry a genetic flaw that makes us 3-4 time more susceptible to heart attacks than white people of the same gender are. Couple that with our oily diet and you get a total heart attack epedemic.
