The NCSL states that 23 states ban all marriage between first cousins outright while nine states allow for certain exceptions ...

Ayesha, who at 29 is the oldest of the three sisters, also married her first cousin in 2017. She has two children with her husband and their marriage is happy, she says. It felt perfectly normal ...

A Connecticut bill would decriminalize possession of small amounts of psilocybin mushrooms, now a misdemeanor, to a cash ...

Officials have no idea how common first-cousin marriages are in the UK – because no-one has to keep track. Although it is illegal to marry your brother or sister, wedlock between cousins is ...

Through a combination of old prejudices and present-day conventional wisdom about inherited birth defects, first cousin marriage is seen by many as a little too close for comfort, as well as a bad ...

a clinical geneticist at the University of Leeds in the U.K., in a statement. The researchers found that consanguineous marriage within Bradford’s large Pakistani community ...

The UK government is under pressure to outlaw marriages between cousins following moves in several Scandinavian countries to ban such unions. The Tory MP Richard Holden has tabled a question for ...