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  2. Consanguinity - Wikipedia

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    It has been estimated that 55% of marriages between Pakistani Muslim immigrants in the United Kingdom are between first cousins, [37] where preferential patrilateral parallel cousin marriage, i.e. a man marrying the daughter of his father's brother, is favored.

  3. Cousin - Wikipedia

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    The terms full cousin [5] and cousin-german are used to specify a first cousin with no removals. [6] The terms cousin-uncle/aunt and cousin-niece/nephew are sometimes used to describe the direction of the removal of the relationship, [7] especially in Mennonite, [8] Indian, and Pakistani [citation needed] families. These terms relate to a first ...

  4. Cousin marriage law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Five states prohibit first-cousin-once-removed marriages. [4] Some states prohibiting cousin marriage recognize cousin marriages performed in other states, but despite occasional claims that this holds true in general, [ 5 ] laws also exist that explicitly void all foreign cousin marriages or marriages conducted by state residents out of state.

  5. The Taiwanese American cousins going head-to-head in the ...

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    In Western terms, they are first cousins once removed, which refers to cousins separated by a generation, she told CNN. To be exact, Su is Huang’s uncle’s granddaughter, said Wu, who described ...

  6. Royal intermarriage - Wikipedia

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    The Habsburg Philip II of Spain and his wife, the Tudor Mary I of England.Mary and Philip were first cousins once removed. The wedding of Nicholas II of Russia and Alix of Hesse (whose name was changed to Alexandra Feodorovna in the process), second cousins through their shared great-grandparents Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Wilhelmine of Baden

  7. Cousin marriage in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the origins of Islam, cousin marriage was an acceptable practice in the Middle East according to writings in the Bible. Abraham sent his servant back to his brother to get a wife for his son Isaac. Isaac eventually married his first cousin once removed Rebekah (daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother.)

  8. Prohibited degree of kinship - Wikipedia

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    first cousins (which is counted as fourth degree of kinship in Roman civil law tradition) In Imperial China (221 BCE to 1912), marriage between first cousins was partially allowed. Marrying the child of one’s paternal aunt, maternal uncle, or maternal aunt was generally accepted in Chinese history during most of China’s dynastic era.

  9. Incest in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Abraham's son Isaac married Rebekah, his first cousin once removed, the granddaughter of his father Abraham's brother Nahor with Milcah. [7] Isaac and Rebekah's firstborn son Esau resorted to marrying his cousin Mahalath, daughter of his father's brother Ishmael because his parents didn't approve of him having relationships with Canaanites. [8]