A major health authority has pulled its recent report citing the “benefits” of first-cousin marriage after it sparked widespread outrage. The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) came under fire after ...

Depending on your culture, cousins marrying cousins will either be a normal occurrence or something hugely taboo. The contrast in opinions on the topic became especially apparent this week, after NHS ...

Marrying a first cousin has been legal in Britain since Henry VIII broke with Rome in the 16th century. The practice faded and became taboo as family sizes shrank and understanding of the genetic ...

The United Kingdom‘s publicly funded health service has deleted recent guidance in which it noted “benefits” of first-cousin marriages and warned against “stigmatizing certain communities” for the ...

There is a roiling debate in the United Kingdom over the practice of first cousins marrying, which is fairly common in some immigrant communities, but still taboo to most of the indigenous population.