Posted on 03/21/2024 2:31:26 PM PDT by Callahan
-Estimated 15 percent of US families reported instance of incest in family trees
-Hotspots include Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, South Carolina, and more
-READ MORE: DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest
….The taboo subject of incest is becoming increasingly discussed as at-home DNA tests from companies like Ancestry and 23&me become more common, revealing uncomfortable truths about family connections.
….CDC research indicates that one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before the age of 18 - the vast majority (91 percent) by someone the child or their family knows.
BedBible says its researchers analyzed more than 290 published peer-reviewed articles including data from more than 11 million people spanning from 1980 to 2023.
In that time, it said, 10 to 15 percent of families had incest events in their family trees. The majority were girls, according to the analysis - with one in five girls victims of incest compared with one in 14 boys.
…An estimated 32 million Americans reported to have been the victims of incest as a child, yet just 20 percent of incest victims report the crime to law enforcement, according to the report.
The report added that over 50 percent of pornography on Pornhub have an incestuous angle, which appears to reflect a dark fascination with inter-family sex.
…Incest is still legal to some extent in 19 US states, where two first cousins can marry. Most of the states fall on the coasts and in the South.
…Incestual relationships seems to be more common in areas that tend to be more remote from larger metropolises.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
In fact, my message to the family dog in that kind of home is, "Run away ASAP. You're next."
I think the # is 100%. Doubt me?
Think about the fact that incest was the only option for the 2nd generation (sons and daughters of Adam and Eve). And we're all their descendants, so we were all impacted.
I doubt it.
Sounds like the story I heard about a guy from a very rural town calling his Dad on his wedding night to state that his wife was a virgin.
The Dad’s response was, “Son, c’mon home. If she ain’t good enough for her family, she sure ain’t good enough for ours.”
I do doubt you, and the whole Adam and Eve thing.
Though I do think throughout history there’s been a lot of incest.
Sorry, I don’t believe it.
I’m not buying this.
Notice the lack of racial data. Similar in the past to 'news' stories that left of the race of killers - meaning they were black. When killers were white it wa in the first paragraph.
West Virginia’s State motto is: DNA - It’s all the same to us!
If you look at the particulars of this study, you will see that UK Royals, WEF members, and Democrat were excluded.
Incest is still legal to some extent in 19 US states, where two first cousins can marry. Most of the states fall on the coasts and in the South.
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And my family was horrified that I went out on date with a 4th cousin. They believe cousins have be past 6th cousins for it not to be incest.
How many married people are walking around and are 4th, 5th, or 6th cousins and don’t even know it? Probably quite a few.
I’ve heard reports from police officers that actual abuse like this is rampant among inner city families.
So the stuff about it being more rural is spin.
Laws allowing first cousins to marry are far different from physical abuse of minor family members.
With the vaguely worded amendment that Ohio passed, it might well be legal there too.
In the creation story in Genesis chapter 1, it says “God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them” (v. 27). It doesn’t say just one pair—there is no indication of numbers. Chapter 2 is very different with Adam being created first and Eve later after Adam is unable to find a suitable helpmate.
You might want to take a gander at what's called "Y-chromosome-Adam" and "X-chromosome-Eve". A decent write-up by an atheist is at https://scienceblogs.com/authority/2007/07/17/adam-eve-and-why-they-never-go. In it the author says, rightly so, not to make too much of the geneticists referring to everyone's common male ancestor as "Adam" and common female ancestor as "Eve" because they didn't do it to affirm belief in the Bible. The scientists named them that just to pick names for whoever the mysterious couple was in the past that they were trying to derive more info about by studying everybody's genes.
And what they concluded, as noted in the article, is that
Eve died more than 50,000 years before Adam was born
This, of course, is talking about the genetic researched "Eve" (based on variations in everyone's portion of DNA that comes from our mothers" and genetic researched "Adam", not the two people from the Bible. I've read others say it's closer to 100,000 years. And so, the author says that there couldn't have been a real Adam and Eve or they'd have to be in the same generation. It also stumped the researches because they assumed that everyone's common male ancestor would be in the same generation as everyone's common female ancestor --- including if we got here through natural selection. Thus, they figured their study was messed up and did it again years later, only to get the same result.
To which I, and others, say it confirms the Noah story of the flood later in Genesis. Of all the people listed in the Bible as being on the ark, all of the men are from the same family line: Noah and his sons. The women listed are their wives -- perhaps from multiple family lines. Thus Genesis says our common male ancestor doesn't have to go all the way back to Adam, but only to Noah. But our common female ancestor would have to go back further, to whoever the common female ancestor was of the ark wives. Perhaps all the way back to Eve.
The article takes a real problem which is child molestation, and mixes it up with the notion that “people in Alabama marry their sisters”.
Note that by lumping together marrying a cousin with the abuse of a child, they are able to say “incest” is more common on the coasts and in the South.
The coasts are the Democrat cities, the South is the more liberal marriage laws.
I’m not saying bad stuff can’t happen on a farm, but far more abuse is happening in the inner cities.
It’s fake. Always srep dad or step mom.
It’s just a header. They aren’t related.
I have been doing genealogy research for years. I have tracked three of my grandparents’ lines back over 600 years. My maternal grandmother’s line has been harder to track, and so far I have only been able to go back about 200 years.
Not a single marriage of siblings or cousins among them, but I did find out that my parents were 12th cousins. They had common (but not direct) ancestors in the 1400s in Sweden and Denmark. My father’s ancestors ended up in Scotland and my mother’s ancestors ended up in Germany.
“Incest is best, put your sister to the test” is something yelled at the screen during The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
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