Should you be allowed to marry your cousin? Three quarters of Britons say no

Imagine being so backward that you want to marry your cousin! 

Hope they do eventually make it illegal.

>British Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are significantly more likely than others to say cousin marriage should be legal:

>White Britons: 8% (net -69)

>Indian Britons: 9% (net -68)

>Black Britons: 6% (net -76)

>Pakistani/Bangladeshi Britons: 39% (net -8)

Absolutely not.
Heightens the risk of abnormalities, traps vulnerable people in forced marriages and is just stomach turning. There’s millions of people you can be in a marriage with that don’t call your dad uncle. Grim

Remember it’s rarely about love, it’s usually arranged. So, no.

>Cousin marriage [is more common among some South Asian minority communities in the UK](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c241pn09qqjo#:~:text=But%20it%20remains%20a%20relatively%20common%20practice%20among%20some%20South%20Asian%20minorities.%20In%20three%20inner%2Dcity%20Bradford%20wards%2C%20almost%20half%20(46%25)%20of%20mothers%20from%20the%20Pakistani%20community%20were%20married%20to%20a%20first%20or%20second%20cousin%2C%20according%20to%20the%20most%20recent%20Born%20in%20Bradford%20data%20published%20two%20years%20ago.), with a recent Born in Bradford study finding that almost half (46%) of mothers from the Pakistani community in three inner-city Bradford wards were married to a first or second cousin. 

They don’t mention, though, that it has dropped from over **60%**.

Nope. There are enough backward, hillbilly types in the world already. We don’t need to normalise this!

There’s a reason this is a big problem in Bradford.

Birth defects as a result of parents being blood relatives is a huge burden to the NHS.

https://borninbradford.nhs.uk/our-impacts/findings/babies-born-with-serious-conditions/

Not to mention cruel to the child and incredibly irresponsible on the parts of the parents.

Is it okay to fuck over your child before they are even born? 

Is that actually the question we are dealing with here? Look, I live in Bradford which is now one of if not the most inbred cities in England. It’s not worth it, not even slightly. The amount of disabilities is astounding in some of the younger people that I talk too often because I’m young myself. 

It should absolutely be banned and if you do it abroad you shouldn’t get a green card for your partner. It’s morally and biologically fucked. 

FYI – it’s not just Asian people before the racists pour out. Bradford is 50% inbred and they don’t make up that much of the population. 

How many cousins have severely disabled children requiring lifelong NHS care? Answer: lots.

Now give us the results broken down by demographics!

It’s not currently illegal to marry even a first cousin, but also do you know if you happen to be distantly related to someone, you almost certainly are

.. No.

The only people fighting for it really is the Islamic community. Before anyone tries to scream islamaphobia, or racism, I’m a Pakistani born in Manchester to Muslim.

All allowing marrying cousins will achieve is more arranged marriages, which is what happened to my 14 year old mother who married her cousin. He tortured and beat her until she ran away when I was born at 17 and was put into homeless shelters etc.

Firstly incest is just gross regardless, and I was born with a few problems. But there is 0 reason to tolerate first cousin marriages. Unless you’re Muslim of course 🙃.

No, why would you even want to. You have the same grandparents that’s minging.

But the Targaryens wed brothers and sisters for hundreds of years to keep the bloodline pure, why can’t I?