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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know someone born from brother/sister incest. I think very, very few people know. Contrary to what you (or at least I) would think, they're high IQ, Ivy educated and very attractive. Obviously a crap ton of stuff under the family hood and lots of secrets but on the surface very rich and successful and basically living the DCUM dream (not in DC). Would have never guessed.[/quote]

My understanding is that the number of incestuous and closely related cousins on the nearest branches of family tree increases the likelihood of genetic issues. We all have tree collapses in our backgrounds. Marrying cousins isn’t as culturally acceptable as it once was even 100 years ago. I’ve helped people with their genealogical research and it is shocking how many Europeans back then married first and second cousins. It isn’t everybody obviously but it is way more than you’d expect. [/quote]

Brother/sister is much closer, genetically and emotionally, than 1st or 2nd cousins but I hear what you're saying and have read similar. The pervasiveness of the incest across generations of a family has a much bigger impact than a one off every 100 years, which is why you see those pervasive issues crop up with groups like the FLDS or the Whitakkers of West Virginia where it's basically standard practice and less so when some second cousins who met twice and dont have a cluster pattern of this have kids. Some level of inbreeding was extremely common for centuries amongst many cultures so it seems like there is some kind of threshold before it becomes a real issue. At least genetically. [/quote]

FWIW my understanding of incestuous means relations between siblings, or parent and child, or grandparent and child. All others like first and second cousins I understand to be close relations but not incestuous though plenty of scrutinize first cousin relationships more presumably with blood tests or some other ways of determining that there are too many close shared ancestors.

So, we agree.

As an aside, it was hard, particularly in remote places, to find people not related to each other. And I don’t mean Alaskan tundra region remote. So many people in rural European villages / parishes are almost all related. [/quote]
Exactly, you can marry your 1st cousin legally in half the states.[/quote]

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