On January 11th Al Hakam had an opinion piece about cousin marriage by a final-year PhD researcher in the field of Oncology (the diagnosis and treatment of cancer).
Yes, I married my first cousin. Shocking? Improper? Perhaps to those who thrive on misplaced moral outrage.
Cousin marriage is a topic that makes some people clutch their pearls while conveniently ignoring the fact that some of the greatest minds in history married their cousins.
So, let’s look at the facts.
Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, married his first cousin. Albert Einstein, the genius who redefined physics, also married his first cousin. What about Queen Victoria and Prince Albert? You guessed it: First cousins.
Before the anti-cousin-marriage bandwagon hyperventilates, let’s step back and examine the history, statistics and science behind cousin marriage.
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