http://giulianimarriedhiscousin.com/

(It's true!)

America..this is weird. Stop doing it.

I mean, the whole thing about studies showing that cousin relationships and sibling relationships won't produce messed up progyny must be fixed or something.

Here we go, an article that has been published that backs me up:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1504045&pageindex=1

More notably, let's zero in on this statement:

"Of the 31 children in these two studies--12 born to father-daughter and 19 to sister-brother matings--only 13 were normal."

Wow. Okay, if that's not a good enough reason to leave your sibling or parent alone, I don't know what is. Let's continue:

"Two died from recessive disorders (cystic fibrosis and glycogen-storage disease) and one from an almost certainly recessive disorder causing progressive cerebral degeneration and loss of vision. Two of those alive probably had recessive disorders, both with severe mental retardation with cerebral palsy, and one a possibly recessive disorder, severe non-specific mental retardation. Two others had died in the neonatal period, a baby with very low birth weight and another with respiratorydistress syndrome. Two had congenital malformations, a lethal Fallot's tetralogy and a survivor with bilateral cleft lip. Eight other survivors were mildly mentally retarded with IQs in seven ranging from 59 to 76; the eighth, whose IQ score was not available, was in a school for the educationally subnormal.
This increase in recessive disorders-between three and six cases in 31 children compared with an expected incidence in the general population of two or three per thousand-is in line with expectations."

Read that.