In Rawalpindi, a baby with two faces fights for survival

[Safriz]

1/3 chances if you do cousin marriage the baby will come out deformed thats what the Dr's tell the mothers before hand

the whole of afghanistan traditionally does cousin marriages due to tribal traditions.....i dont see 4 legged afghans.

 

[Yeti]

the whole of afghanistan traditionally does cousin marriages due to tribal traditions.....i dont see 4 legged afghans.

This is what Dr's tell the chances are of the baby becoming deformed from marrying cousins it was on a documentary i saw where the Dr tells the mother it will be 1/3 chance and she was happy to take that risk as she believed it was in Gods' hands.


Dispatches - When Cousins Marry - Channel 4

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the whole of afghanistan traditionally does cousin marriages due to tribal traditions.....i dont see 4 legged afghans.

Also are you talking about 1st cousin because thats what i mean if it is 2nd or 3rd cousins the risk is much lower

 

[SQ8]

the whole of afghanistan traditionally does cousin marriages due to tribal traditions.....i dont see 4 legged afghans.

You do see deformed kids, retards.. diseases like thalasemmia and the like in Afghanistan.
Nobody reports them.. doesn't mean they arent there.

 

[Yeti]

I know some Telugu hindus that do inter-cousin marriage also its part of their customs i knew one girl who was going to marry her 1st cousin i tried to tell her the risk but she didn't care.

 

[iPhone]

1/3 deformaties is a huge number and cant be true by any stretch of imagination. I know many people, with cousin marriages and, none of their kids are deformed, autistic or what have you. It's just seems baloony. And I know quiet a few couple they're married in far off cultures etc and some offspring of theirs is autistic.

In a country like Pakistan, people jump at cousin marriage bashing without realizing there are many other factors that could be involved. We dont have great track record of children immunization. There's a lot of illegal substance passed to patients from hakeem saianas, and during pregnancy the care of mother and the fetus in our culture which isn't that great either esp. poor and middle class, these all could play a significant role in genes deformities in people.

 

[Yeti]

1/3 deformaties is a huge number and cant be true by any stretch of imagination. I know many people, with cousin marriages and, none of their kids are deformed, autistic or what have you. It's just seems baloony. And I know quiet a few couple they're married in far off cultures etc and some offspring of theirs is autistic.

In a country like Pakistan, people jump at cousin marriage bashing without realizing there many other factors could be involved. We dont have great track record of children immunization. There's a lot of illegal substance passed to patients from hakeem saianas, these all could play a significant role in genes deformities in people.

This is what the Dr told the mother but it was a case of marrying her 1st cousin he warned her it is 1/3 chance but she was happy to take the risk.

 

[iPhone]

This is what the Dr told the mother but it was a case of marrying her 1st cousin he warned her it is 1/3 chance but she was happy to take the risk.

she should be alright, it's just scare tactics or precautionary if you will. But I've seen, numerous, and I mean numerous and numerous cousins getting married, and god willing no body as any issues with their kids being autistics or with any other physical deformaties.
This is mostly a western thing to frown upon cousin marriage and of course our part of the wold must take their word and implement it in order to appear 'cultured' 'educated' and 'civilized'

 

[Yeti]

she should be alright, it's just scare tactics or precautionary if you will. But I've seen, numerous, and I mean numerous and numerous cousins getting married, and god willing no body as any issues with their kids being autistics or with any other physical deformaties.
This is mostly a western thing to frown upon cousin marriage and of course our part of the wold must take their word and implement it in order to appear 'cultured' 'educated' and 'civilized'

The British monarchy has been doing cousin marriages for hundreds of years even Queen Victoria married her first cousin Albert, Prince Consort.

 

[Jango]

well, my father and mother, were cousins, albeit not too close, but not too far as well.

But now , this culture is decreasing in some areas.

Hope the Child survives, would need an operation abroad, or is there a facility in Pakistan? Hope that the parents get all the financial help they can. If the baby has 2 brains, or a conjoined vertebrae, then that can be trouble.

 

[Kinetic]

she should be alright, it's just scare tactics or precautionary if you will. But I've seen, numerous, and I mean numerous and numerous cousins getting married, and god willing no body as any issues with their kids being autistics or with any other physical deformaties.

Everyone smokes cigarettes does not has cancer but the chance increases by many folds.

This is mostly a western thing to frown upon cousin marriage and of course our part of the wold must take their word and implement it in order to appear 'cultured' 'educated' and 'civilized'

No, the western did not made that science but invented it. cousin marriage not just about cultured, educated and civilized but about science and at long run it makes the species weak.

Read it somewhere, in a X jungle when the number of tigers reduced drastically, they have to remove all the tigresses from the jungle and put them in another Y jungle, while picked the same number of tigresses from Y and put them in jungle X to save the tigers.

 

[Awesome]

Are the parents of this unfortunate child known to be cousins?

Certain malformations are random mutations.

I was surprised to hear that from a doctor too... As far as I knew the chances are primarily of down syndrome. But others are saying the same too

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1050460/pdf/jmedgene00067-0044.pdf

 

[iPhone]

Everyone smokes cigarettes does not has cancer but the chance increases by many folds.



No, the western did not made that science but invented it. cousin marriage not just about cultured, educated and civilized but about science and at long run it makes the species weak.

Read it somewhere, in a X jungle when the number of tigers reduced drastically, they have to remove all the tigresses from the jungle and put them in another Y jungle, while picked the same number of tigresses from Y and put them in jungle X to save the tigers.

first of all a bad analogy with smoking. And if you google cousin marriages, there are studies upon studies of favoring it(or rather calling it a safe marriage) as there are of opposing it.

 

[kingkobra]

as per vedas women are duhita...i.e. they should be married as far as possible(relation wise)...so it must be said for a reason..

 

[Awesome]

You do see deformed kids, retards.. diseases like thalasemmia and the like in Afghanistan.
Nobody reports them.. doesn't mean they arent there.

Genetic disorders can happen in any case... I don't want to sound in favor of this archaic practice, but the chances of having a deformed offspring only go up if you have a recessive gene for a particular deformity in both the parents. Otherwise you're looking at like 2-5% chances. If there's nothing wrong with either parent then nothing wrong would be passed on....

Disorders other than deformity may still happen.

 

[A1Kaid]

Cousin marriages should be outlawed and made a criminal offense. In breeding is absolutely disastrous for off spring.