Wilshire@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 7 months agoBill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fightwww.wsmv.comexternal-linkmessage-square145fedilinkarrow-up1462arrow-down19cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up1453arrow-down1external-linkBill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fightwww.wsmv.comWilshire@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square145fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squarekinttach@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoIt increases the risk of birth defects slightly but not as much as people seem to think. a single first-cousin marriage entails a similar increased risk of birth defects and mortality as a woman faces when she gives birth at age 41 rather than at 30 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/there-s-nothing-wrong-with-cousins-getting-married-scientists-say-1210072.html
minus-squarejpreston2005@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agocontinued procreation within the family destroys the viability of the offspring eventually. This is not something to be encouraged.
It increases the risk of birth defects slightly but not as much as people seem to think.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/there-s-nothing-wrong-with-cousins-getting-married-scientists-say-1210072.html
continued procreation within the family destroys the viability of the offspring eventually. This is not something to be encouraged.