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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Is it better if you "swing" with a second cousin or an Uncle? I'm a little rusty on my biology...

Neither. Keep in mind that a second cousin would be the child of your first cousin. In other words, you and your second cousin have common great-grandparents.

In most places in the U.S. and from what I know from my PoliSci classes and my rather limited genealogical experience, second cousin and closer is generally considered in American politics, society, culture, and law to be too close to kin for marriage and sex, therefore, any sexual contact is considered to be incestuous in nature. NOTE: I am also not a lawyer or a geneaologist.

As for Adams Co. I can't validate that tidbit, though I do know a few people from college who've lived there.

35 posted on 12/19/2005 7:41:29 PM PST by rzeznikj at stout (Save Christmas, Screw the ACLU)
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To: rzeznikj at stout
Neither. Keep in mind that a second cousin would be the child of your first cousin. In other words, you and your second cousin have common great-grandparents.

Correction, that would be the child of your parent's first cousin.

39 posted on 12/19/2005 7:44:46 PM PST by rzeznikj at stout (Save Christmas, Screw the ACLU)
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