Tennessee birth control

[Mr645]

It's legal to marry your baby sitter however

[Bill in NC]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=Bill in NC]
IIRC, nothing wrong with marrying your first cousin, genetically speaking.

and that's how Shelbyville got founded, after all...because he found his cousins "darned attractive."

Effects of inbreeding in humans
IIRC, not statistically significant for first cousins.

Though I'd probably stick with the baby sitter (not baby sister) instead.

[Ted King]

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/us/fe...usins.html

First cousins are somewhat more likely than unrelated parents to have a child with a serious birth defect, mental retardation or genetic disease, but their increased risk is nowhere near as large as most people think, the scientists said.

In the general population, the risk that a child will be born with a serious problem like spina bifida or cystic fibrosis is 3 percent to 4 percent; to that background risk, first cousins must add another 1.7 to 2.8 percentage points, the report said.

Is a couple of percent enough risk to discourage first cousins from having children? I don't think there is an objective way to determine that. I think it is worth making sure the first cousins are aware of the amount of risk but I think the risk is low enough that I would leave it to them to decide.

[DeusxMac]

Ted King wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/us/fe...usins.html

First cousins are somewhat more likely than unrelated parents to have a child with a serious birth defect, mental retardation or genetic disease, but their increased risk is nowhere near as large as most people think, the scientists said.

In the general population, the risk that a child will be born with a serious problem like spina bifida or cystic fibrosis is 3 percent to 4 percent; to that background risk, first cousins must add another 1.7 to 2.8 percentage points, the report said.

Is a couple of percent enough risk to discourage first cousins from having children? I don't think there is an objective way to determine that. I think it is worth making sure the first cousins are aware of the amount of risk but I think the risk is low enough that I would leave it to them to decide.

So would that mean, statistically, that for every 100 "first cousin" parent couples there would be 5 to 7 whose children would have birth defects that were the result of their genetic relationship?

[Tiangou]

Ted King wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/us/fe...usins.html

First cousins are somewhat more likely than unrelated parents to have a child with a serious birth defect, mental retardation or genetic disease, but their increased risk is nowhere near as large as most people think, the scientists said.

In the general population, the risk that a child will be born with a serious problem like spina bifida or cystic fibrosis is 3 percent to 4 percent; to that background risk, first cousins must add another 1.7 to 2.8 percentage points, the report said.

Is a couple of percent enough risk to discourage first cousins from having children? I don't think there is an objective way to determine that. I think it is worth making sure the first cousins are aware of the amount of risk but I think the risk is low enough that I would leave it to them to decide.

The problem isn't with 1st cousins having kids.

It's with multiple generations of 1st cousins having kids.

The kids of inbred 1st cousins are very close to siblings genetically.

It doesn't take long before you have a bunch of kids with crazy Hapsburg faces.

[Lux Interior]

Inbred, three-nipple cousin-fuckers.

[Ombligo]

DeusxMac wrote:
So would that mean, statistically, that for every 100 "first cousin" parent couples there would be 5 to 7 whose children would have birth defects that were the result of their genetic relationship?

A birth defect doesn't mean something serious, it can just be something minor that doesn't even register to most folks. The serious life altering defects are far more infrequent. There is a significant statistical chance that a woman over 35 will have a child with downs syndrome, should they not be allowed to marry or bare children?

I think a great deal of this has to do with the "ick" factor.

I find it interesting as my parents were second cousins (my maternal grandmother and paternal great-grandmother were sisters). That may explain a great deal about me though, add in that my mother was 42 when she had me and I'm surprised I'm not voting for Trump

[RgrF]

Ombligo wrote:
That may explain a great deal about me though, add in that my mother was 42 when she had me and I'm surprised I'm not voting for Trump

You still have time to get there.