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"make babies outside of your own ethnic group." No, you should not: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207140855.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/r
by thesz 11y ago
"make babies outside of your own ethnic group."
No, you should not: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207140855.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080207140855.ht...
For example, for women born between 1800 and 1824, those with a mate related at the level of a third cousin had an average of 4.04 children and 9.17 grandchildren, while those related to their mates as eighth cousins or more distantly had 3.34 children and 7.31 grandchildren. For women born in the period 1925-1949 with mates related at the degree of third cousins, the average number of children and grandchildren were 3.27 and 6.64, compared to 2.45 and 4.86 for those with mates who were eighth cousins or more distantly related.
The autism rates in the Iceland are not that high, being 1.2% (Korea has twice as much autists as Iceland with their 2.6%): http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2013/07/05/autism-prevalence-in-iceland-1-2/ http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/2013/07/05/autism-prevalenc...
- cthalupa 11y agoIs your argument that you should not because you will have more children if you stay to those more closely related to you? I don't feel like that's necessarily a strong argument even if you don't think the world is going to have population problems, but if you do, that would be a pretty strong negative
- thesz 11y agoThe very probability of having a child is higher in the case of relatively distant relatives. So if you marry to have a child (parallel to other goals, of course), then you should not look very far. If you marry to not have a child, or your priorities structured rather differently, my argument is null.
- douche 11y agoAnecdotally, people that marry their cousins are not too keen on birth control, and they tend to get started on the project a few years earlier than other folks, so...