married her 1st cousin
I believe he is her 3rd hubby, and they have a kid. I only saw her in the law film with Harrison Ford.
shareStill legal in most places, I think. It wasn't that long ago that it wasn't considered all that unusual. I don't think their kids are much more likely to be mutants because of it, either. It's only when cousins keep marrying for repeated generations that the risk really gets to be worrisome.
shareYep. Pretty common in the US in the 19th and early 20th century as well. In one of the little house books by Laura Ingalls, she mentions seeing a cousin after some years, that had married another cousin.
shareNo, it is legal in a minority of states. In the majority of states it is illegal and if allowed is only allowed if the cousins are over the age of 65 or one of them is infertile.
Of course the irony is that outside of some of the backward ass deep south states, it is the very northern states like New York and New Jersey where it is also legal... Then again incest is legal in New Jersey while not in the deep south states which begs the question of just how backwards those deep south states are compared to the yankees.
I looked it up and 24 states ban it completely. Anyway, I wasn't talking specifically about the US.
shareYou may want to check your source, 25 have a complete ban in the US 19 states allow it completely the other state only allow it in specific instances where the couple are too old to have kids or where one of them is sterile.
As for other countries I have no clue, since there are nearly 200 different countries and each has its own rules. But In China it is illegal so that wipes out about 20% of the population in one swoop... India represent about 20% of the population as well and Hindus are forbidden to do first cousin marriage... so frankly if you are just going by which people in the world can't marry cousins it is probably a majority as you've already gotten about 40% forbidden with only 2 countries.
I like how you word your post like you're correcting me and were right all along. Kind of funny. Even if you are correct, I was only off by one state. There are 50 states. 25 is still not a majority of the states like you claimed. Most sources I've seen says 24 ban it completely, though. Anyway, you're the one who originally wrote that its completely illegal in a majority of states and that in states where it's legal, it's only allowed if the cousins are over 65, which was wrong. Nineteen allow it completely, a few others allow it but with some kind of limitation - which is different than a complete ban. In my state you can't buy alcohol until you're 21. We don't say buying it is illegal.
China has a pop of nearly 1.4 billion. India has almost a billion hindus. Even if every Hindu in India were not allowed to marry, that'd be about 30 percent of the world population. But that's not the case. The laws are actually more complicated than that, I see when Googling it.
Looking into it a little more, worldwide it's banned in more places than I thought, though. Not that it matters too much to whether it's banned for say 57 percent of the population or 49 percent. My main point was that studies have been showing that the risk isn't much higher when first cousins marry. It's probably not necessary to ban it, if that's why they did it, which I think was the main reason. Nothing that terrible about Scachi doing it, really. Those people years ago that we thought of as ignorant and backwards for allowing it probably were right.
25 are flat out illegal, 6 are illegal except in very specific circumstances with only 19 being completely legal. No that would mean it is illegal in a majority of states by any reasonable standard.
And I never said there was any genetic reason for it being banned or allowed. Not sure why you are even bringing that into your argument. If you like some first cousin of yours go for it, but don't try to make believe that it accepted by most of the people in the world. It isn't whether for genetic reason or simply because it is a little too close to incest.
It is NOT "illegal in a majority of states by any reasonable standard" when we were talking about it being completely illegal. If you can get snipped and legally marry your cousin, them marrying your cousin is not completely illegal.
And what you originally claimed it was completely illegal in most states. Oh, and that in every other state its only legal when both people are over 65. I can see what you originally wrote. Why are you bothering? Are you trolling or just really silly?
I haven't got anything going on with a cousin and am not interested, but I'm not really bothered that this actress did.
No offense, it is incest plain and simple. But people have foolish and unwise hearts in this world. There are enough decent strangers in the world to marry. It's natural to find family members attractive, but there is line you do not cross. I can't even imagine marrying a foster, adopted or step family member.
I recall the soap Guiding Light has a story line based on two cousins, Jonathan and Tammy. Ironically, it was very popular. Futhermore, on Call The MidWife, one episode featured incestuous siblings in the 1st episide.
Finally, I read Princess Eugenie is married to her 3rd or 4th cousin . But that is common in the royal circle. Back in 2011, I read a decent Regency based romance novel entitled My Lady Angel based on 1st cousins.
I respect that. My opinion is a little different. Whether it's incest depends on the culture. Einstein's second marriage was with a first cousin and I don't think it was a big deal at the time (no children). In our culture, attitudes about it were different not that long ago.
I was kind of shocked at how common in certain parts of the world even today. Reproducing with a first cousin isn't really much of a risk unless the offspring do the same. When it keeps going on for generations it can certainly cause issues.
It's probably a good idea to make it illegal to avoid that kind of situation, actually. Unless the apocalypse happens and people don't have many other options, there's no need for it. That said, I don't care too much about what this actress did. As sins go, I don't think it rates very high, though. It was a first generation cousin marriage, so they didn't really take much of a risk having a kid, even.