cousins in love
By eLder_tRee
@eLder_tRee (35)
Philippines
April 7, 2007 12:51am CST
cousins are prohibited from marrying, or even dating. but nowadays, more and more people have been open (and quite courageous) to this phenomenon. scientific articles are also being published investigating biological impacts and psychological measures. But as we investigate this, why is it still taboo to have cousin marriages in our society when the facts are clear and the answer is yes? http://www.tedpack.org/cuzdate.html
5 responses
@Maxturvy (114)
• Philippines
11 Apr 07
It is indeed taboo to have cousin marriages in our society but some family members continued doing this for the reason that they really fall in love. They said " Love is Blind" and because of that whatever it is, whether you are my kin, a deformed one, an alien so on and so forth, he / she will still love you and willing to move mountains only to get married with you. They knew the consequences about kinship marriage but still can't be stop.
@myworld_and_you (1223)
• Philippines
10 Apr 07
I think Cousin marriages would depend on the culture you were brought up and your religious beliefs as well. Since I am a Christian and been taught that incest and cousin marriages are not allowed and is a sin in God's eyes, then that's why I am not open to these kinds of marriages. I stand on what my faith and beliefs are. To those who are cousins and fell in love with each other, I respect them for their decision. It might be against to the Christian teachings, but I still respect them and couldn't judge them as well. WE never know what their real story is. :)
@waytovj (268)
• India
7 Apr 07
Well in this part of the world where I live. Cousin marriages have been practiced since ages among the Hindus. But the relegion I belive in prohibts us from marrying cousins. We are supposed to see our cousins as our own siblings. So I've considered my cousin only as my sister so I will never be able to understand your feeling. marriages from the same family can be dangerous for the children to be born they can have many genetical malformities.
@easyzheng (666)
• China
9 Apr 07
This topic is very interesting indeed. Actually, in ancient China, such kind of marriage was very popular, and even in my parents' time, it was not rarely seen. But in the past few decades it is more and more strictly prohibited for the sake of avoiding physical deformity of their offspring. It goes without saying this is a good policy, so much so that we young people consider it ridiculous to marry one's own consins. But dramatically I happened to meet two couples who are consins and both have very healthy and strong kids. This set me to think whether it should be compelling to prohihit consin marriage because we can also see many people born handicapped from healthy parents from different blood origin.
