Forbidden relatives : the American myth of cousin marriage /
Forbidden Relatives challenges the belief - widely held in the United States - that legislation against marriage between first cousins is based on a biological risk to offspring. In fact, its author maintains, the U.S. prohibition against such unions originated largely because of the belief that it...
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
©1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Laws prohibiting the marriage of relatives
- The reasons for U.S. laws against first cousin marriage
- European laws prohibiting the marriage of relatives
- European views of cousin marriage
- The evolutionary factor
- Biogenetics and first cousin marriage
- Culture and cousin marriage.