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[-] gilarelli@jlai.lu 13 points 1 week ago

Careful anon, that's how you get a Habsburg child

[-] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 67 points 1 week ago

I mean, probably not with a second cousin, unless you do it for hundreds of years. Greater risk of birth defects if you have children over 30.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 27 points 1 week ago

Yeah even first cousins are actually not that bad, biologically speaking, if it's only done for one (or probably even two?) generation.

Yup, and AFAIK, it's legal in some areas to have kids with your first cousin.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Probably legal in more places than it's illegal

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It is, in fact, legal more places than not. Cousin marriage was extremely common for thousands of years. It only really started to drop off when people started owning cars and could meet people from further away. Most places still haven't changed their laws because the cultural change was so recent, and because it's low risk enough that it's not a serious concern if it's just once in a while rather than, say, medieval European royalty shenanigans.

AFAIK the risk is about the same as having a kid after 40.

[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

And at this point, with all of the toxins from food processing/preservatives and the plastics getting into our bodies, the added risk is probably negligible.

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