First Cousins

[offtoseethewizard]

Is anyone married to /in a relationship with their first cousin, do you have children? did it cause a problem in your family or are you accepted?

interesting article

My d is 6 and he is very close to his cousin, she is also 6 (her dad is dh's bro) I can never imagine them marrying. We would all be

don't be so stupid, cod

my sis in law is married to her first cousin and they have 2 children, no problems.

My grand-parents were cousins. They had 5 children with no severe issues. They all have had depression and all 5 are on the same anti-depressant. I don't know if that is related to their parents or what, but it is a little weird.

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It is too close...yuk at the thought of marrying my mum's sister's son....too close really.

Very common in some cultures.

Risk of genetically linked problems with offspring not very high, I thought? I suppose there's a greater risk in families with cf/similar. Don't know much about it though.

My friend's sister married their first cousin. No one batted an eyelid BUT

a)the sister was adopted, so no genetic link and
b)sis and cousin didn't meet till in their 20s - friend's parents having moved to Australia pre-children.

Bleugh - my cousin is hot but thought of shagging him makes me want to barf!

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I know not of them in the biblical sense though.

Oh, and rub it in lady, 'handsome brother' 'grey stylish cousins'.....'mangey slept in his clothes'

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Found this info

here

And if you have any questions you can ask Aunt Kate or MIL Kate to some!!!

Yes, apparently, fio.
She shouted at me because I wasn't holding my pencil correctly and because of when i corrected her about the capital of Mongolia being Ulan Bator and not, as she maintained, Telford.
It's repression of me and my species, that's what it is - keeping us poor and uneducated and powerless (apart from my recent spell in charge of China)

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You would 'lounge' in a corridor if you'd been jackbooted out.

[slightly concussed]

I am telling the truth and was absolutely NOT in there to steal biscuits out of her handbag. Oh no.

Not at all.

Im used to some of the comments made here, but to be honest, 5yrs down the line it really doesnt bother me.

My girls dont have any boy cousins to marry, so just need to see if DS goes for the older girl!

To be frank, neither of us would encourage a relationship between cousins, but it was what felt right between us.

The thing about not marrying a stranger - i did marry a stranger! I didnt know him although I knew we were related.

I dont feel it goes against my faith to have done what I did, and to be honest, it never even surfaces as an issue. My DH's sister is my SIL. DH's mum is my MIL etc. I didnt even know my MIL/FIL - to the extent i couldnt tell you what they looked like - until I was 17.

Weird I may be, but that good, dont want to be the same and keep up with the jones'