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Originally Posted by Suave
I call shenanigans on the law then. Unless it's changed in the past 50 years or so, I know that FDR married his cousin, and it was well-known. If it were against the law, I'm sure he'd have been impeached/arrested/whatever. The increase in chance of birth defects, et cetera is minimal outside of one's immediate family. There are other factors that far outweigh those involved with one's extended family.
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But was it his first cousin? Was the cousin genetically related to him?
I can understand the incest issue becoming kind of pointless when you move out to a second or third cousin type deal, but aunts, uncles and
first cousins(genetically) are close enough in relation to potentially cause problems. That is the aunts and uncles that have a genetic relation to you, not just legal.