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11-26-2011, 06:15 AM
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I know someone who's started to date their second cousin. What do you think of that? I'm not sure what I think of it.
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11-26-2011, 06:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: UK | | | Might be legal but it's still seems wrong to me. |
11-26-2011, 06:25 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Down in the middle somewhere. | | | On one hand i think its a bit dodgy, on the other hand you cant control love and its not like they are brothers and sisters or first cousins!
Im pretty sure kids between second cousins have high odds of being normal!
Remember that until not long ago it was usual for big families and Monarchy to marry their own cousins (sometimes first) and most of them ended up fine!
If they dont see a problem, more power to them!
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11-26-2011, 07:00 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | In places where cousin marriage is common, the marriages are usually arranged. Dating a cousin is weird because if things go bad she is still in your family, and may still have to deal with her.
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11-26-2011, 07:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Victoria, Australia. | | | Blood relation of any kind = not good.
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11-26-2011, 07:35 AM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | It doesn't make sense saying this, since we're all blood related.
Even a 1st cousin isn't much of an issue genetically speaking and it's allow in most places. |
11-26-2011, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Jazz Ad  It doesn't make sense saying this, since we're all blood related.
Even a 1st cousin isn't much of an issue genetically speaking and it's allow in most places. | Genetically speaking, you are drastically increasing your chances of hereditary conditions with first cousins.
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11-26-2011, 07:41 AM
| | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | It is an absolutely neglictable risk unless there is a known recessive genetic issue running rampant in the family. In this case the issue becomes prevalent. |
11-26-2011, 07:47 AM
| | | | Im of the problem it really isn't an issue unless you grew up with the relative. If you never have seen the person they're essentially a stranger.
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11-26-2011, 07:49 AM
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11-26-2011, 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Jazz Ad It is an absolutely neglictable risk unless there is a known recessive genetic issue running rampant in the family. In this case the issue becomes prevalent. | I'm willing to bet that most family trees have several recessive genetic issues running through them. Being recessive, they'll likely remain unknown unless it pops up by unfortunate chance, by breeding with a close relative or by getting your DNA sequenced, and even though that is becoming fast and affordable, and we have the majority of conditions databased, I certainly don't know anyone who has done it  Quote:
Originally Posted by rr5025 Im of the problem it really isn't an issue unless you grew up with the relative. If you never have seen the person they're essentially a stranger. | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...s-wedding.html
I'm betting those guys wish it was that simple! (granted, significantly higher risk in that case!)
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11-26-2011, 07:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | How many people need to know their little secret? It's likely such a thing is more common than most people would suspect.
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11-26-2011, 08:07 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana | | | I think it's gross. Way too many people out there to be dipping in the gene pool in your back yard.
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11-26-2011, 08:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London, UK | | | it'll be fine. the kids can high-six each other at family reunions. |
11-26-2011, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Stinsok How hot is she? |
The Question. This is it.
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11-26-2011, 09:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway | | | A big no to that from me. To me they are apart of my family, not merely blood-kin. It'd be a bit too much like dating a first cousin. So I guess in a world where I did not regard second cousins as a part of my family, I'd might have a different opinion. |
11-26-2011, 09:21 AM
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Originally Posted by knumbskull it'll be fine. the kids can high-six each other at family reunions. | Lol.
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11-26-2011, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by knumbskull it'll be fine. the kids can high-six each other at family reunions. | Thats pretty funny! 
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11-26-2011, 10:06 AM
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But seriously, here's something I thought of 20 years ago:
Think of all the people you've been intimate with - approx 20?
Think of all the people you've dated - maybe 100?
Think of the members of the opposite sex you've ever met - maybe 500?
Think of the members of the opposite sex you've ever seen - maybe 2,000?
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Think of all the members of the opposite sex there ARE - 3,420,253,500!
Maybe time for them to date someone they don't know to be a blood relative! 
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