The Connecticut legislature’s Judiciary Committee unanimously passed a bill that would prohibit marriage between first cousins in the state. If the bill passes in the legislature, Connecticut would ...
The primary concern with cousin marriage is the higher likelihood of recessive genetic disorder. Every person carries some ...
In modern western society ... I have heard of first-cousin marriages going back generation after generation in some families. Cross-Cousins vs. Parallel Cousins In some societies, first cousin ...
If you only receive one recessive gene then you are merely a 'carrier'. That becomes dangerous in first cousin marriages since cousins share grandparents, so the risk of a child inheriting two ...
The ban on first cousin marriages was slightly amended to include that the couple would have to know that they were so related. It would not pertain to any existing marriages, but only those after ...
Adverse health effects on the children of first cousin marriages have been established in medical research. Holden added that "the real impacts on the openness of our society and women’s rights ...
The bill, proposed by Conservative former minister Richard Holden, follows the introduction of a ban on cousin marriages that came into effect in Norway in 2023 and a planned ban in Sweden from ...