Does anyone else here have inbred cousins?

Lawrence

Lawrence

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I have inbred cousins and found it interesting visiting them when I was young. My mothers brothers wife was inbred and they had three sons that were not smart enough to get a High School diploma and two daughters that were able to get a diploma and get married and have more kids. I woud hang arround the three sons and it was quite boring they would sit on the same sofa and watch Ray Milland and Betty Davis movies and say what great actor they were. They also smelled the same and I thinks that inbreds have a certian smell about them. I have been wondering for a while if others here have inbred relatives also.
 

Lawrence said:
I have inbred cousins and found it interesting visiting them when I was young. My mothers brothers wife was inbred and they had three sons that were not smart enough to get a High School diploma and two daughters that were able to get a diploma and get married and have more kids. I woud hang arround the three sons and it was quite boring they would sit on the same sofa and watch Ray Milland and Betty Davis movies and say what great actor they were. They also smelled the same and I thinks that inbreds have a certian smell about them. I have been wondering for a while if others here have inbred relatives also.
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No inbred, but I think everyone has a few stinky cousins in one way or another.
 
You want inbreeding? Look at the royal families of Europe. They married cousins because there wasn't much else to marry. Double cousins were common. And with all the shenanigans, who knew if they were marrying a (secret) half-brother or -sister.

No wonder there was so much insanity and genetic diseases among the nobility. Hemophilia was called "The Royal Disease" for good reason.
 

King Charles II of Spain Could Barely Speak or Eat. ​

The Hapsberg Jaw developed through inbreeding royals.​

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Additionally, he was unable to walk until he was eight years old, and even then could only walk with great difficulty.
 
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In Canada, it is legal to marry one’s first cousin. Marriage is also permitted between a niece or nephew and an uncle or aunt. Our geneticists lobbied to have earlier prohibition of this overturned. Apparently, a woman over forty has the same, if not greater chance of having a baby with birth defects than persons marrying these relatives. Persons carrying the gene for Huntington’s Chorea have a fifty percent chance of passing it on to offspring. No prohibition exists.
 
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inbreeding occurs when two people who share a common ancestor (are of the same blood line) marry and have children. Two brothers who marry two sisters would bring two different blood lines together and all their children would be first cousins to one another.

The marriage itself is not the issue, it's the children born of the marriage. If there is a recessive gene in the blood line, it will be exaggerated in the offspring.
 
I have read that when groups of people live in the same community like some religous communities the chances of inbreeding is much higher. Also some religious communities where one man has multiple wifes the chances of inbreeding is higher also. I can only wonder if some communities of people have dissapeared due to this.
 
Whenever I hear " Inbred", I think of the family I met while in nursing school. I was in the pediatric intensive care unit. There was a newborn. His grandfather, father, and brother were all the same person, and his mother and sister were the same person. There is also an aunt/sister. Concepts like father, brother, mother, sister break down with this family.
 

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