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Originally Posted by Hadding
Uncle-niece marriage is legal in Australia (except Queensland), Canada, Germany, Sweden, Portugal, etc. There must be millions of examples. Here's a famous example from the UK, Baron Acton.
First-cousin marriage is legal in many of the United States. The risk of congenital illness from such marriages is only somewhat increased, and it depends on what genes the parents are carrying.
I suspect that the laws against cousin-marriage were enacted as much for social reasons, to break up clans and promote homogenization of the population, as for any eugenic purpose. |
Ah, so it does work, then. Phew - I was beginning to suspect those benevolent elderly basement dwellers had lost their touch.