Many pseudo-scientific "intellectuals" argue that SI consanguineous marriage are risky and have genetic defects associated. Nearly all SIs are descended from such marriages over thousands of generations. Are they in wheelchairs?
In North India, they are tabooed. Are they all sans handicaps?
This is totally riduculous. Actually marriages after 35 are the reason for many defects. There should be a sensible law like this:
Puberty is the criterion for marriage.
The maximum age for marriage is thirty five.
and such if the state really wants to enforce health.
SIs also have system of gotra or patrileneal geneeology where marriage between paternal and maternal first cousins is shunned. This is pure genetics. In parallel cousin marriages and marriages between maternal uncle nieces, a lot of varience is introduced through others so it is just equal to marriying within ones' caste.
The popular myth of consanguineous marriages is propagated by some lobbies in a manner to break age old local bondings and disturb the society to make it onto a pack of commercial wolves like westerners with no 'real' relatives.
http://www.larasig.com/node/2020
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2564/whats-wrong-with-cousins-marrying
In North India, they are tabooed. Are they all sans handicaps?
This is totally riduculous. Actually marriages after 35 are the reason for many defects. There should be a sensible law like this:
Puberty is the criterion for marriage.
The maximum age for marriage is thirty five.
and such if the state really wants to enforce health.
SIs also have system of gotra or patrileneal geneeology where marriage between paternal and maternal first cousins is shunned. This is pure genetics. In parallel cousin marriages and marriages between maternal uncle nieces, a lot of varience is introduced through others so it is just equal to marriying within ones' caste.
The popular myth of consanguineous marriages is propagated by some lobbies in a manner to break age old local bondings and disturb the society to make it onto a pack of commercial wolves like westerners with no 'real' relatives.
http://www.larasig.com/node/2020
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2564/whats-wrong-with-cousins-marrying
