Comments on: 10 Famous People Who Married Their Cousins

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:38:03 +0000

I think it’s hot. I’d bang my cousin..sounds like a dirty little hobby. hahaa

By: Othercat

Othercat — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:32:20 +0000

This is gross. I think the population is large enough that we can all look outside our own families for a spouse. Even third, fourth or fifth cousins have enough of the same blood to make me say ewwwww.

By: Kemo

Kemo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:03:51 +0000

It is sad that human beings misunderstand the subject of love and sex/sexuality very grossly, and that is what informs the taboos about cousin marriages! Accordingly, there is no probing why marriages are failing right, left and center…

Any thought of total strangers in gamble-like union with corresponding value differences, fear and hard-hearts as subtle factors in the picture??? Imagine, on the other hand, cousins who in being already familiar have similar values and soft-hearts for each other.

Thus, while conventional marriages are about forever learning to be familiar, and prove oneself, cousin union would be about building on an already established relationship. My marriage collapsed because of the former. Meanwhile, societal taboo blocked a golden opportunity for my maternal first cousin and I to get married though we silently loved each other and wished that we could.

The day humanity fully understands love, sex/sexuality and marriage, a whole lot of problems would be averted in our world – a type of paradise! Maybe that is why humanity looks for paradise beyond living because they lost it here. Every social issue starts from the home made by the union of two people.

By: musicman

musicman — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:21 +0000

I am amazed at the bible thumpers that will swear that the story of Noah and the flood is the absolute truth but in the same breath will condem cousins who marry each other. If the only people on the ark were Noah and his wife, Noah’s sons and their wives—-well figure our the relationships of the flood survivors that carried on the human race. Are we ALL at least cousins?

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Genealogy Articles Published by The Examiner « Genealogy Stories — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:07:27 +0000

[...] in an attempt to control their bloodline and their wealth. Many famous people in history married their cousins. Some of them include Albert Einstein, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, [...]

By: hounddog

hounddog — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:04:42 +0000

so what if your cousin was only related by marriage and you had just met that person about a year ago?

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Complimentary, My Dear Self « Guttermind — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:15:13 +0000

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By: Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:46:10 +0000

The US is the only country that has developed this strange stigma and opposition to cousin relationships and marriage. History is filled with examples of happy, healthy examples of married cousin couples – all the way back to biblical times. The incorrect belief that cousins will produce deformed babies has perpetuated this stigma and contradicts the actual truth. I find it amazing that the US accepts homosexual relationships and even homosexual marriage, but frowns upon the idea that cousins can love one another and desire to be married and spend their lives together. That makes absolutely no sense.

By: christina

christina — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:46:02 +0000

hi my great grandad married his cousin and had 4 children one of which had serve mental health she went on to marry her cousin and had a child with serve mental health my parents are not related but i suffer serve mental health which is ditroying my life i feel resentful this could happen and dont feel alot for my family my life has been very hard and i struggle to cope with daily life this is so unfair

By: hotchacha

hotchacha — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:52:24 +0000

I think ya’all are making tooooo much of this cousin thing. Really look it up in the Bible if you are so inclined, incest stops before cousins. I have a particular cousin that I think is totally HOT and to our pleasant surprise we have very strong feelings for each other. We have done the deed a few times and it has just made us closer. And yes we can still look each other in the eye at family reunions.