Are you married to your first cousin?

[Bang Galore]

How can gods have sex and give birth to different mythical creatures. ?

If the reference is to Hinduism, you will be surprised to know that it never happens. The "Gods" never give birth, the creation is always done exotically.

Just like how some people can marry dogs.

Did you just equate that with marrying first cousins? and the guy supporting such marriages actually thanked you?

well what is even more weird is not to believe in one god the creator of all.

That's even more funny than "gods" giving birth.

 

[Roybot]

The ratio of genetic mutation among cousin and non cousin marriages is the same...There is no difference.

Not in UK apparently.

British Pakistanis are 13 times more likely to have children with genetic disorders than the general population - they account for just over 3% of all births but have just under a third of all British children with such illnesses.

Obviously not every cousin marriage couples have babies with genetic disorder and the percentage is also low. But it surely increase the chances.

I think getting medical tests done before the marriage should solve the problem.

 

[VCheng]

I am not even married...............

Lucky person!

 

[VelocuR]

I am guessing, safriz married to cousin also hai na ?

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

There's nothing wrong with cousins getting married, scientists say
Risk of babies having genetic defects 'has been overstated'

There's nothing wrong with cousins getting married, scientists say - Science - News - The Independent

 

[Pukhtoon]

Thread became Trolled Club now !!

Bye and Gud nite guys !!

 

[Safriz]

Not in UK apparently.



Obviously not every cousin marriage couples have babies with genetic disorder and the percentage is also low. But it surely increase the chances.

I think getting medical tests done before the marriage should solve the problem.

Lol..
British Government has the habit of blaming everything on Muslims/British Pakistanis/Non EU immigrants...
so their Facts and figures are no more than cow's fart to me.

Thread became Trolled Club now !!

Bye and Gud nite guys !!

Y u no troll?

 

[RazPaK]

Did you just equate that with marrying first cousins? and the guy supporting such marriages actually thanked you?

Oh the superior bharti IQ prevails again.

Providing an example is the same as equating?

 

[VelocuR]

The Middle East has uniquely high rates of cousin marriage among the world’s regions. Saudi Arabia, have rates of marriage to first or second cousins that may exceed 50%, Iraq was estimated in one study to have a rate of 33%, and figures for Iran and Afghanistan have been estimated in the range of 30–40%. Though on the lower end, Egypt and Turkey nevertheless have rates above 20%.

All states in the Persian Gulf currently require advance genetic screening for all prospective married couples. Qatar was the last Gulf nation to institute mandatory screening in 2009, mainly to warn related couples who are planning marriage about any genetic risks they may face. The current rate of cousin marriage there is 54%, an increase of 12–18% over the previous generation. A report by the Dubai-based Centre for Arab Genomic Studies (CAGS) in September 2009 found that Arabs have one of the world’s highest rates of genetic disorders, nearly two-thirds of which are linked to consanguinity. Research from CAGS and others suggests consanguinity is declining in Lebanon and Egypt and among Palestinians, but is increasing in Morocco, Mauritania and Sudan.

Dr. Ahmad Teebi, a genetics and pediatrics professor at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, links the increase in cousin marriage in Qatar and other Gulf states to tribal tradition and the region’s expanding economies. “Rich families tend to marry rich families, and from their own – and the rich like to protect their wealth,” he said. “So it’s partly economic, and it’s also partly cultural.” In regard to the higher rates of genetic disease in these societies, he says: “It’s certainly a problem,” but also that “The issue here is not the cousin marriage, the issue here is to avoid the disease.”

It is estimated that at least 55% of British Pakistanis are married to first cousins and the tradition is also common among some other South Asian communities and in some Middle Eastern countries. But there is a problem: marrying someone who is themselves a close family member carries a risk for children, a risk that lies within the code of life, inside our genes. Communities that practice cousin marriage experience higher levels of some very rare but very serious illnesses known as recessive genetic disorders.

Great article fully detail: Inbreeding – Cousin marriages and health disorders « hatefsvoice

anyone cousin, I want to marrry now!

 

[Roybot]

There's nothing wrong with cousins getting married, scientists say
Risk of babies having genetic defects 'has been overstated'

There's nothing wrong with cousins getting married, scientists say - Science - News - The Independent

But why would a healthy 20 something couple would want to have the same risks for their babies as a 40 year old woman? Obviously the call for banning is overreacting but to say that there is no extra risk is wrong as well.

From your source,

However, Professors Paul and Spencer said that the risk of congenital defects is about 2 per cent higher than average for babies born to first-cousin marriages – with the infant mortality about 4.4 per cent higher – which is on a par with the risk to babies born to women over 40. "Women over the age of 40 have a similar risk of having children with birth defects and no one is suggesting they should be prevented from reproducing," said Professor Spencer, whose co-authored study is published in the online journal Public Library of Science.

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

I've read the article. To me it seems that you're the one who didn't read the article, as you don't know what it's saying. What are you, Punjabi?
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I am muslim and here is another treat for you

There's nothing wrong with cousins getting married, scientists say - Science - News - The Independent

 

[Safriz]

Oh the superior bharti IQ prevails again.

Providing an example is the same as equating?

They just glued a made in India metal tube with Russian electronics and made Agni 5..
Y u no impress with their IQ?

 

[Raja.Pakistani]

But why would a healthy 20 something couple would want to have the same risks for their babies as a 40 year old woman? Obviously the call for banning is overreacting but to say that there is no extra risk is wrong as well.

Risk is relatively very very small.... the average risk of birth defects in a child born of first cousins at 1.7–2.8% over an average base risk for non-cousin couples of 3%

 

[Safriz]

I want to marrry now!

Soryy...

Its you and your hand tonight and for many nights to come.

 

[VelocuR]

In Pakistan, where there has been cousin marriage for generations, and according to professor Anne-Marie Nybo Andersen from South Danish University, the current rate is 70%, one study estimated infant mortality at 12.7 percent for married double first cousins, 7.9 percent for first cousins, 9.2 percent for first cousins once removed/double second cousins, 6.9 percent for second cousins, and 5.1 percent among non-consanguineous progeny. Among double first cousin progeny, 41.2 percent of pre-reproductive deaths were associated with the expression of detrimental recessive genes, with equivalent values of 26.0, 14.9, and 8.1 percent for first cousins, first cousins once removed/double second cousins, and second cousins respectively.

We didn't have any other options but marry only cousins, culture taught us narrowly.

A rough estimate shows that close to half of all Muslims in the world are inbred: In Pakistan, 70 percent of all marriages are between first cousins (so-called "consanguinity") and in Turkey the amount is between 25-30 percent.

Statistical research on Arabic countries shows that up to 34 percent of all marriages in Algiers are consanguine (blood related), 46 percent in Bahrain, 33 percent in Egypt, 80 percent in Nubia (southern area in Egypt), 60 percent in Iraq, 64 percent in Jordan, 64 percent in Kuwait, 42 percent in Lebanon, 48 percent in Libya, 47 percent in Mauritania, 54 percent in Qatar, 67 percent in Saudi Arabia, 63 percent in Sudan, 40 percent in Syria, 39 percent in Tunisia, 54 percent in the United Arabic Emirates and 45 percent in Yemen.

"It is common in the Islamic world to marry your brother’s daughter, which is actually [genetically] closer than marrying your cousin."