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Disadvantages of Cousin Marriage: Marriage with cousins increases the risk of genetic disorders. Dr. According to Mira Pathak, this increases the risk of diseases such as thalassemia, microsephali in children.
Disadvantages of Cousin Marriage: Like other countries nowadays, blood relations weddings have increased in India. Although the reason for these marriages is traditional, personal, religious and social matters. According to one statistics, 35 percent of marriage in Britain takes place between blood relations or close relatives. Although people consider such marriages to be fit, it is not scientifically appropriate. There is a need to raise awareness among those who do so. Because, many disadvantages of such marriages have been reported. According to the doctor, these marriages increase the risk of residential and dominant genetic disorders in children. Now the question is, why not marry blood relations? What are the disadvantages of getting married in a cousin? Noida’s senior gynecologist Dr. Mira Pathak is telling News 18 about this.
Relatives are a Latin word that comes from the con (shared) + relative (blood). It is used for groups or couples who have at least one ancestor. A relative marriage means married between two people whose common ancestors are. It is a kind of breeding. Widely speaking, marriage is a socio-religious agreement whose main purpose is to create a genetic product, a family.
According to experts, the practice of marrying blood relatives, cousins, is clinically false. Because people who do so increase the risk of diseases such as thalassemia and microcephaly. Doctors say genes related to about 2,980 recess diseases have been identified, while 8,000 to 9,000 genes are still unknown. It is said that evolution is caused by genomic changes, but due to the marriage of cousins, this change is increasing the burden of disorders.
According to doctors, a married couple born baby may face many congenital genetic disorders. As you can tell, the risk of mortality, disease and congenital genetic disorders in children born with blood relations in the family significantly increases the risk of mortality, disease and congenital genetic disorders. Due to marriage in close relatives, the increase in recording or harmful symptoms deteriorates people’s health, known as ‘inbriding depression’.
According to experts, when two strangers are married, their genes are very different from each other. In this case, both are likely to have genes for similar diseases. Because of this, the children born from them are also healthy. On the other hand, when cousins are married, their ancestors are the same. That is, they increase the risk of having the same type of defective genes. In such a case, their child may have a serious illness.
The risk of these diseases is high
- Thalassemia
- Sickle cell anemia
- Cystic fibrosis
- Muscular dystrophy
- Cleptomenia
New Delhi, Delhi
July 01, 2025 8:21 pm is
