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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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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I think there is also a small town in Eastern USA that currently has an issue with everyone being too closely related