But no Hindu practise it in UK , what you say about that blame Hindus . I thought you guys become higher up after getting convertedIt's social practice and driven primarily by conservative rural cultures to preserve their landed wealth. Your talking as if your a Swede. The fact is over 9% of Hindus in India practice cousin marriage - this figure was higher in the past particularly in the south but has reduced over the decades. Aas referance Indian Muslim clock in at 15% cousin marriage. You draw your own inferances from this. If you estimate the Hindu population of India at about 1.1 billion this would mean at 9% about 100 million Indian Hindus indulge in this practice. No offence but 100 million is a vast number that would drown all of Turkey and Greece combined.
Prevalence and determinants of consanguineous marriage and its types in India: evidence from the National Family Health Survey, 2015-2016
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence and examine the determinants of consanguineous marriage types in India. Data for 456,646 ever-married women aged 15-49 years were analysed from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 conducted in 2015-16. The overall prevalence of consanguineous marriage was 9.9%; the South region (23%) and North-East region (3.1%) showed the highest and lowest prevalences, respectively. Muslims had a higher prevalence (15%) than Hindus (9%). The prevalence of first cousin marriage (8.7%) was more than that of second cousin (0.7%) and of uncle-niece marriages (0.6%). Women living in urban areas and in nuclear families, having a higher level of education and belonging to affluent families were less likely to marry their cousins (p < 0.01). Women living in the South region of the country were more likely to marry their cousins, as well as uncles (p < 0.001). Close scrutiny of the trends in the results (odds ratios) revealed no clear relationship between socioeconomic condition and consanguineous marriage. The study results suggest that religion and north-south regional dichotomy in culture largely determine consanguineous marriage rather than socioeconomic condition in India.
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Prevalence and determinants of consanguineous marriage and its types in India: evidence from the National Family Health Survey, 2015-2016 - PubMed
The aim of the present study was to estimate the prevalence and examine the determinants of consanguineous marriage types in India. Data for 456,646 ever-married women aged 15-49 years were analysed from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-4 conducted in 2015-16. The overall prevalence of...pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The young British Pakistani women prepared to marry their COUSINS in order to keep their families happy - but risk giving birth to disabled children
- BBC Three documentary Should I Marry My Cousin? follows 18-year-old Hiba
- She is on a quest to figure out whether she should follow her family tradition
- Hiba speaks with her own relatives as well as two sisters on their wedding day
- They marry their own cousins in a double ceremony
- Hiba looks at research from the 'Born in Bradford' study which is a long-term study of 13,500 children born in 2007 whose health is being tracked
- Worried over potential genetic issues when having children with a cousin, the research shocks Hiba who chooses not to marry her own relative
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The young British Pakistani women prepared to marry their COUSINS
It has been legal in the UK to marry your cousin for over 400 years, and for British Pakistanis it's something that has grown in popularity and become a tradition to marry within the family.
You guys have literally fucked british health system by marrying your cousines