Posted on 10/27/2025 1:15:54 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In a startling episode of bureaucratic overreach, the British National Health Service (NHS) quietly removed a controversial guidance document extolling supposed “benefits” of first-cousin marriage, from “stronger extended family support systems” to “economic advantages.”
The document barely saw the light of day before public outcry forced its withdrawal.
However, the deeper issue remains: a publicly funded health institution considering normalizing consanguineous marriage based on cultural sensitivity is concerning.
It’s a warning sign that the U.K. is quickly losing its grip on both medical ethics and science.
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Let’s be clear. Marrying one’s first cousin is a known risk factor for recessive genetic disorders.
The document itself admits that, in the general population, a child has about a 2%-3% chance of being born with a genetic condition, and that risk increases to 4%-6% if the parents are first cousins.
In other words, the odds double, although most children of first cousins are unlikely to have such a genetic condition.
Consanguineous, or cousin, marriages are rare in Western and European countries, accounting for less than 0.5% of marriages.
In North African and Arab nations, consanguineous marriages range from 25% to 55%. Social, cultural, and demographic factors influence this variation.
Genetic risks are based on Mendelian inheritance, something we learned in high school biology. Family members share recessive genes that are much more likely to manifest in consanguineous marriages compared to unions of unrelated individuals.
These elevated genetic risks manifest in conditions like cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, congenital heart defects, hemophilia A, metabolic disorders, and others. The chain of inherited recessive mutations is subtle but real, and each generation of consanguineous pairing increases the likelihood.
Any policy from a health authority that downplays or ignores those dangers...
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This was why the royals were not quite right. They played that game to try to keep the monarch under control.
wy69
Jeff Foxworthy lines.
Where does a redneck guy go to find his future bride?
A family reunion.
What kind of family are you from if your sister is not good enough for you? - Maybe Mohammad.
Yeah, but they're still holding hands.
Sure does.
They also did it to gain territory, titles, and wealth through arranged marriages. During the medieval period, they arranged marriages between children, but many were never completed, because one of the children died, or the families/countries fell out.
Add in in-tribe/clan marriages over a long period, keeping the gene pool limited, and you’re setting up a society with lower than normal mental capacities, along with all the physical problems that are more prevalent because of inbreeding.
First cousin marriage is reserved for royals and for tribes.
So now “incest is best” is bad, again?
And after the first, second or third go around, it’s pretty much a given you’re ready for jihad.
I heard that Bill Clinton’s family tree goes straight up.
Rhode Island has a special carve out for marriage among Jews
https://law.justia.com/codes/rhode-island/2012/title-15/chapter-15-1/chapter-15-1-4/
§ 15-1-4 Marriages of kindred allowed by Jewish religion. – The provisions of §§ 15-1-1 – 15-1-3 shall not extend to, or in any way affect, any marriage which shall be solemnized among the Jewish people, within the degrees of affinity or consanguinity allowed by their religion.
I predict this walk back will be walked back we when the goat humpers threaten the politicians.
,,, “we ain’t too smart but we have a lotta fun.” It’s a game the whole family can play!
A: You never turn your back on family.
“In North African and Arab nations, consanguineous marriages range from 25% to 55%. Social, cultural, and demographic factors influence this variation.”
It is Islam.
Muhammad changed pre-existing restrictions to marry his first cousin, so Sharia has accepted it ever since. In Afghanistan, more than half of marriages are to first cousins.
The birth defect risk may only increase about 3% in a single first cousin marriage, when it is done repeatedly for generations, the risk increases, until it levels off around one out of three. Many Muslim countries. like Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia have high rates of inbreeding birth defects, the worst often kept mostly indoors, out of view.
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