So I have
been watching Arrested Development and I have been thing about this thing
between George Michael and Maybe. Is it really wrong to be in love with your
cousin because I have known a few people who have dated their cousin. Does it
matter whether it’s your first cousin, second or third cousin? Charles Darwin famously married his cousin
Emma and went on to have 10 children. Other first cousin couples include HG
Wells and Isabel Mary, and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, along with many of
the royal family at that time. It is only in more recent times that
"kissing cousins", as they are sometimes known, make us feel
uncomfortable. When the actor Greta Scacchi fell in love with her first cousin,
Carlo, and had a son in 1998, it was frowned upon by the tabloids as well as
the Catholic church. In cultures such as Indian cultures cousin marriages have
been seen as a normal ritual. The question is what has changed in between these
years that has made cousin marriages such a disgrace? Because after all doctors
say that the medical excuses have bee exaggerated.
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