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	Cousin Marriages

Tommolo

9-4-2007 6:28 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/06c0ae3d-3c0f-4510-878d-977685e89165/9E74EBEC-1EDB-441D-A68D-4C64707D06B7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=facts" href="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=facts" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cousincouples.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=facts">Some people are fixated on the fallacy that cousin couples 
pose an intolerable risk to their offspring. However it is likely 
that we are all descendants of cousin marriages. Before civil laws 
banning cousin marriages, it was preferable to marry a cousin in 
some communities as it is to this day in many countries.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=facts"><SPAN>Children of non-related couples have a 2-3% risk 
            of birth defects, as opposed to first cousins having a 4-6% risk. 
            Genetic counseling is available for those couples that may be at 
            a special risk for birth defects (e.g. You have a defect that runs 
            in your family) In plain terms first cousins have at a 94 percent 
            + chance of having healthy children. Check the links section for 
            more information on genetic counselors. The National Society of 
            Genetic Counselors estimated the increased risk for first cousins 
            is between 1.7 to 2.8 percent, or about the same a any woman 
            over 40 years of age.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=states" href="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=states" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cousincouples.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=states"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cousincouples.com/img/BE516E47-7D3F-4E74-95BF-2B40B5326E21" alt="Map of the US" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=states"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="cl1"><A href="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=facts" linkindex="4" set="yes">   
                                Cousin Marriage Facts</A><BR /></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=states"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="cl1"><A href="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=world" linkindex="6" set="yes">   
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                                State Laws</A><BR /></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=states"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="cl1"><A href="http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=international" linkindex="8" set="yes">   
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