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A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited. [1]
[1] [2] As of February 2014, 24 U.S. states prohibit marriages between first cousins, 19 U.S. states allow marriages between first cousins, and seven U.S. states allow only some marriages between first cousins. [3] Five states prohibit first-cousin-once-removed marriages. [4]
Among Israeli Ashkenazi Jews, the first-cousin marriage rate was measured in a 1955–7 study at 1.4% and other cousin marriages at 1.06% of all marriages. But among non-Ashkenazim the first-cousin marriage rate was 8.8% and an additional 6.0% of marriages were between more distant cousins.
Mr Holden highlighted variations in cousin marriage in countries around the world, adding: “Certain diaspora communities have extremely high rates of first-cousin marriage, with Irish Travellers ...
The practice is allowed and even encouraged in countries around the world. Until the mid-1800s cousin marriage in the U.S. was favored by the upper class as a way to hold onto wealth. The rise in ...
Marriages between first cousins would be banned in the UK under a proposal to be tabled in Parliament. ... Mr Holden said the issue has been under discussion in other countries and suggested it is ...
Laws may also bar marriage between closely related people, which are almost universally prohibited to the second degree of consanguinity. [citation needed] Some jurisdictions forbid marriage between first cousins, while others do not. Marriage with aunts and uncles (avunculate marriage) is legal in several countries. [7] [8]
Consanguine marriage is marriage between individuals who are closely related. Though it may involve incest , it implies more than the sexual nature of incest. In a clinical sense, marriage between two family members who are second cousins or closer qualifies as consanguineous marriage.