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Areas with high cousin marriage rates 'more likely to claim benefits', figures reveal
The Daily Mail ^ | 05 Oct 2025 | GABRIEL MILLARD-CLOTHIER

Posted on 10/07/2025 7:11:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Communities with high rates of cousin marriages are significantly more likely to claim disability benefits, according to new data seen by The Mail on Sunday.

Analysis shows a rise of a quarter in the handouts in areas where the practice is more common.

In Bradford, where one in six children is born to parents who are cousins, disability benefits are 23 per cent higher than average, costing the taxpayer millions of pounds more every week.

Experts say that the increase is down to the higher risk of birth defects and deformities – which include blindness, hearing loss and schizophrenia – when a child’s parents are so closely related.

The news comes after the MoS revealed last week that the NHS has been accused of ‘taking the knee’ to political correctness after it published guidance advocating cousin marriage, saying it offered benefits such as ‘stronger extended family support systems’.

Cousin marriage is most common in British-Pakistani communities, which account for around

Four per cent of all births nationwide but about 30 per cent of recessive gene disorders.

Experts believe that the resulting birth defects have caused 20 per cent of infant deaths in Birmingham, 20 per cent in Redbridge in East London, and 53 per cent of all South Asian infant deaths in Bradford.

Dr Patrick Nash, director of the Pharos Foundation social science research group in Oxford, said: ‘These chronically inbred populations are at much higher risk of death, serious disability, non-fatal development issues and lifelong ill-health.

‘Rogue statistics and terrible public health advice are serving to minimise the dangers of cousin marriage and disguise the true scale of the problem.’

Richard Holden, the Tory MP who is campaigning to ban the practice, said: ‘First cousin marriage undermines everything modern Britain stands for in terms of personal freedom and integration.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: consanguinous; unitedkingdom

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1 posted on 10/07/2025 7:11:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Communities with high rates of cousin marriages are significantly more likely to claim disability benefits,


2 posted on 10/07/2025 7:15:10 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Those who live in the District of Corruption more than likely claim the most of all locations in the U.S.


3 posted on 10/07/2025 7:21:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The New DemonRAT Amerika! If you don't like your political opponent, kill them and their family.)
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I thought it was “friends with benefits”


4 posted on 10/07/2025 7:26:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nothing says lovin’ like doing your cousin’.


5 posted on 10/07/2025 7:30:15 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I bet a study on cousin marriage in Minnisomalia would be revealing.


6 posted on 10/07/2025 7:35:30 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DoodleBob
Must confess that is not what I first thought of.


7 posted on 10/07/2025 7:36:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is goings to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: jmacusa

Uh, only if the cousin is truly doable.


8 posted on 10/07/2025 7:37:28 PM PDT by anton
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To: MinorityRepublican

I thought this was going to be an article about West Virginia


9 posted on 10/07/2025 7:47:08 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: EC Washington

Strange but True: West Virginia and Kentucky are among the strictest states concerning first-cousin marriages (you can’t even marry your first cousin in KY if one or both of you is adopted).


10 posted on 10/07/2025 7:54:11 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is this because the kids are malformed, or is it simply because a population too lazy to look beyond their immediate family is too lazy to work?


11 posted on 10/07/2025 7:58:06 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: EC Washington

The Whittaker’s. If you haven’t watched those video from The Soft Underbelly you need to see at least as much as you can take. It’s sad, sick, and educational. I feel so bad for those folks.


12 posted on 10/07/2025 8:03:25 PM PDT by chuck allen
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To: MinorityRepublican

The word of the day: Consanguinity.

It s very prevalent in the Middle East

Consanguinity is the state of being descended from a common ancestor, often referring to marriage or sexual relations between closely related blood relatives, such as first cousins.


13 posted on 10/07/2025 8:07:00 PM PDT by chuck allen
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’ve always wondered if all those ‘gods’ in India depicted in their art and statues back in antiquity were derived from a superstitious explaination for all the defects and deformities born from children whose parents were closely related.


14 posted on 10/07/2025 8:15:17 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It is actually West Virginia that has the highest number of disability claims as a percentage of population. Followed by Arkansas, Mississippi and Kentucky. The District of Columbia is fairly low in disability claims.


15 posted on 10/07/2025 8:16:12 PM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, black Trump supporter, executed in the street in broad daylight 2020.a)
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To: Gene Eric

Cousins with benefits?


16 posted on 10/07/2025 8:38:21 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

And, that’s what they want. If they can control if you eat or not, they can control you. I assume this is the tactic that they plan to try to use to control the mooslims once they get to a certain concentration of the population.

It’ll likely end badly for them, but that’s what they get.


17 posted on 10/07/2025 8:49:58 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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Ummm...

The royal family? And royal families in general? We gonna talk about them?

The historic reasons for it are the same whether you had a lot to protect or somewhat less to protect. To keep the accumulated wealth and property within the family.


18 posted on 10/07/2025 8:54:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Only attractive cousins.


19 posted on 10/07/2025 8:55:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Only attractive cousins

I've got some attractive cousins -- we're pretty bunch -- but no thank you.

20 posted on 10/07/2025 8:58:19 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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