First Cousin Marriages - Genetic Defects, Fact or Fiction???

[malamute]

Why isn’t there concern about sperm donors?
What if a bloke donates his sperm to numerous labs round the country?
His offspring could unwittingly mate.
Where’s the uproar?

yes, i bet it's happened more than once too.

There’s a higher chance they’d be attracted to one another too.
Yet no outcry from the usual ‘concerned’ suspects.

I imagine the chances of that happening are quite slim, not impossible though. What's the alternative - stop all sperm donations just in case the above scenario might happen once in a blue moon?

I suspect in relation to cousins knowingly marrying each other, it's a 0.0000 something % chance.

Why would there be a higher chance of them being attracted to each other though?

Often arranged marriages take place thats why cousins are marrying cousins.

[malamute]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ralia.html

i read this and was reminded of this thread.

[Guest]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5583869/Eight-members-incest-family-arrested-three-states-Australia.html

i read this and was reminded of this thread.

Sorry, what has the link got to do with cousin marriages in England?

[malamute]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5583869/Eight-members-incest-family-arrested-three-states-Australia.html

i read this and was reminded of this thread.

Sorry, what has the link got to do with cousin marriages in England?

The heading was First Cousin Marriages. (It didnt mention England).

I added the link to highlight the severe disabilities that kids can get when families breed with other family members.

[Nucks]

Pretty sure I’m going to hell, but the last sentence of this quote made me laugh.

Emperor Franz II of Austria married his double first cousin Marie-Therese, but their son paid the price for the proximity of their blood. Ferdinand I was born in 1793 with a hydrocephalic head containing fluid build up and pressure that severely challenged his intelligence and motor skills. He also had the Habsburg jaw with a tongue far too large for his overbite, a body too small for his head, and epilepsy. Reportedly, "One of his favorite pastimes was to wedge his bottom in a wastebasket and roll around the floor on it. Despite that, he reigned as emperor for 18 years."

From a web page about royal inbreeding.

https://m.ranker.com/list/mutations-and ... peterdugre

[Guest]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5583869/Eight-members-incest-family-arrested-three-states-Australia.html

i read this and was reminded of this thread.

I'm not a fan of the DM, but interesting article, thanks.

[Guest]

Pretty sure I’m going to hell, but the last sentence of this quote made me laugh.

Emperor Franz II of Austria married his double first cousin Marie-Therese, but their son paid the price for the proximity of their blood. Ferdinand I was born in 1793 with a hydrocephalic head containing fluid build up and pressure that severely challenged his intelligence and motor skills. He also had the Habsburg jaw with a tongue far too large for his overbite, a body too small for his head, and epilepsy. Reportedly, "One of his favorite pastimes was to wedge his bottom in a wastebasket and roll around the floor on it. Despite that, he reigned as emperor for 18 years."

From a web page about royal inbreeding.

https://m.ranker.com/list/mutations-and ... peterdugre

That was many blue moons ago. The thread is talking about, now, today.

[Guest]

There is a TV programme about this subject next week bbc. The show is a boy how people come their partners

[Trapper John]

There is a TV programme about this subject next week bbc. The show is a boy how people come their partners

Eh? ....... Is that you kat?

[Guest]

If there is really a higher risk of genetic defects, why has the government not stepped in and stopped this? Or at the very least try
to educate those that are most likely to practice this type of marriage.