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NHS defends cousin marriages because ‘only 15 percent lead to birth defects’ (www.yahoo.com)
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Midwives have been told about the benefits of “close relative marriage” in training documents that minimise the risks to couples’ children.

The documents claim “85 to 90 per cent of cousin couples do not have affected children” and warn staff that “close relative marriage is often stigmatised in England”, adding claims that “the associated genetic risks have been exaggerated”.

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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (10 children)

An unfortunate aspect of Pakistani culture that has carried over to the UK.

Families would marry within the family to keep their wealth within the family.

Unfortunately after successive generations, this can cause serious problems.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Thank god no European family of significance has ever done anything like this.

    spoiler

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Obviously they have, it's just very few and far between.

    It's a bit silly to bring up royal families and pretend their lifestyles are similar to that of the common man.

    Look at this map and tell me the issue is European culture.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    It reads like a dogwhistle for xenophobia. I deleted my original comment because I had second thoughts that OP was referring strictly the article and I misunderstood. I'm starting to think my original thought wasn't too far off, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    This is a problem with Pakistani culture in Britain when it comes to marrying family members.

    There's a reason why the hotspot of birth defects for all of Europe is in Bradford, an area of high Pakistani immigration where over 80% of married adult Pakistanis are married to cousins. That is an insane stat.

    Brits have been doing this for literal hundreds to thousands of years.

    No, some German-descended royals did it for a few hundred. And they are absolutely not representative of the average Briton. Most normal people aren't continually marrying from the same royal families of other allied nations, like royals used to.

    Do you think maps like this are mere coincidence?

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