Areas with high cousin marriage rates 'more likely to claim benefits', figures reveal

The Daily Mail ^ | 05 Oct 2025 | GABRIEL MILLARD-CLOTHIER

[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.

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

[Sirius Lee]

Nothing says lovin’ like doing your cousin’.

What about breeding with your sister-cousin? Asking for half of the muzzies on the planet.

[BFW]

Super low hanging fruit!!!

Is that why the home office in the UK basically advertised “Marry your first cousin life is good....”

Got to get those intermarrying, low IQ, genetically damaged muslems in to the main stream.

Arabs bear brunt of gene disorders
https://www.thenational.ae/uae/arabs-bear-brunt-of-gene-disorders-1.504568

The spread of inbreeding marriages in Palestine
https://cmc-terrasanta.org/en/media/terra-santa-news/19333/the-spread-of-inbreeding-marriages-in-palestine

[jmacusa]

Yes. Cousin marriage is perfectly acceptable for followers of the Moon God.

Anything to distract them from crashing planes into buildings and their penchant for making people drafty north of their shoulders.

[Night Hides Not]

LOL

[EC Washington]

I have watched The Whittaker’s many times. It is fascinating. The Company I work for has a plant in WVA - most people from Ohio refuse to work there because of the locals like the Whittakers.