On April 12th, Newsweek had an article about cousin marriage:
First-cousin marriage remains completely legal in these 17 states: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia.
Other states allow first cousins to get married in some specific circumstances. Maine, for instance, allows cousins to wed after they undergo genetic counseling. Other states, such as Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Utah and Wisconsin, allow it when both individuals seeking to get married reach a certain age, typically at which they would be unlikely to have children.
The exact number of Americans who are married to their first cousins is not clear. A 2015 column from FiveThirtyEight examined the issue and found that statistics show that 0.2 percent of Americans are married to their first cousins. The website said, however, that number also includes the number of Americans married to their second cousins, and that number is based on studies from 1941 to 1981, with more-recent data not being available.
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