Shaking Off the Shame

dabateman · #1 (**permalink**) 11-26-2009, 04:04 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/ga...sins.html?_r=1

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WHEN Kimberly Spring-Winters told her mother she was in love, she didn’t expect a positive response — and she didn’t get one.

“It’s wrong, it’s taboo, nobody does that,” she recalled her mother saying.

But shortly after the conversation, Ms. Spring-Winters, 29, decided to marry the man she loved: her first cousin.

Shane Winters, 37, whom she now playfully refers to as her “cusband,” proposed to her at a surprise birthday party in front of family and friends, and the two are now trying to have a baby. They are not concerned about genetic defects, Ms. Spring-Winters said, and their fertility doctor told them he saw no problem with having children.

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Historically, marriage between cousins has been seen as desirable in many parts of the world, and even today, slightly more than 10 percent of marriages worldwide are between people who are second cousins or closer, Dr. Bittles said. In the United States, the percentage is thought to be much smaller, although it is difficult to estimate, since such marriages have long been an underground phenomenon, because of laws forbidding them and because of the lingering incest-related stigma.

Interesting... I don't have any real opinions. It's not my place to judge their relationship and it's not incest so... more power to em I guess.

Sulayman · #2 (**permalink**) 11-26-2009, 08:07 AM

I've known of one first cousin marriage. It might have lasted a year. Not sure I'm the best judge

jabbo · #3 (**permalink**) 11-26-2009, 09:47 AM

Aw shucks, my mama and daddy is first cuzzins. Don't mean nothin.

rivrrat · #4 (**permalink**) 11-26-2009, 12:05 PM

I had a HUGE crush on one of my first cousins. No... two of them. My sis slept with one of them, the little bitch.

I don't see the issue.

Mikeyy · #5 (**permalink**) 11-26-2009, 03:50 PM

I had lust in my heart.

Kizzume · #6 (**permalink**) 11-26-2009, 04:29 PM

I don't see the issue really either. Brother/sister yes, but cousins, no.

jabbo · #7 (**permalink**) 11-26-2009, 05:15 PM

But seriously folks, check this out.

California, New York and Massachusetts actually side with Alabama and Georgia on something!

Kizzume · #8 (**permalink**) 11-26-2009, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Kizzume

I don't see the issue really either. Brother/sister yes, but cousins, no.

When I said "brother/sister yes, but cousins, no" when I said "yes" I was meaning that yes, I'd have an issue with it.

GottaGo · #9 (**permalink**) 11-27-2009, 08:48 AM

I know of at least one cousin marriage. They chose not to have children (I don't the why) but adopted two kids instead.

Hey, if it's legal in the state, then who am I to say. Not my way of doing things, but if I had fallen in love with my cousin, might be a different game.

saltwn · #10 (**permalink**) 11-27-2009, 02:59 PM

One of my brothers married our second cousin -to put that in perspective, her grandfather and our grandfather were brothers. They have a son.
And my half sister married my uncle. They had five boys.
So I am no one to judge either.

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