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English: Example canon/common law relationship chart showing the relation between a grandson (blue) and a great-great-great-great grandson (red) is first cousins, removed 4 times (purple diamond). Date
A cousin is a relative that is the child of a parent's sibling; this is more specifically referred to as a first cousin.. More generally, in the kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a cousin is a type of relationship in which relatives are two or more generations away from their most recent common ancestor.
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Data on cousin marriage in the United States are sparse. It was estimated in 1960 that 0.2% of all marriages between Roman Catholics were between first or second cousins, but no more recent nationwide studies have been performed. [175] It is unknown what proportion of that number were first cousins, which is the group facing marriage bans.
Original vector map from Blank US Map, striped.svg by Lokal_Profil. Information from: Cousin marriage law in the United States by state; NCSL's State Laws Regarding Marriage Between First Cousins; NDAA list of incest statutes; Cornell University Law School's marriage laws list; Author: Khin2718
In law and in cultural anthropology, affinity is the kinship relationship created or that exists between two people as a result of someone's marriage. It is the relationship each party in the marriage has to the family of the other party in the marriage. It does not cover the marital relationship itself. Laws, traditions and customs relating to ...
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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]