A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors)...

Cousin marriage is a form of consanguinity (marriages among couples who are related as second cousins or closer). In many nations in the Middle East,...

The legal status of first cousin marriage varies considerably from one U.S. state to another, ranging from being legal in some states to being a criminal...

and cross cousins. Currently about 10% and historically as high as 80% of all marriages are between first or second cousins. Cousin marriages are often...

cross-cousins is especially important in some cultures. For example, marriage is promoted between them in the Iroquois system. Parallel cousins are occasionally...

arranged marriage, forced marriage, polygyny marriage, polyandry marriage, group marriage, coverture marriage, child marriage, cousin marriage, sibling...

surnames could marry (i.e. maternal cousins and paternal cousins born to the father's sisters). In Achaemenid Persia, marriages between family members, such...

first cousin marriages, uncle-niece marriages, second cousin marriages, and so on. The most common consanguineous marriages are first cousin marriages, followed...

In a clinical sense, marriage between two family members who are second cousins or closer qualifies as consanguineous marriage. This is based on the...

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coupled with a full first cousin. Worldwide, more than 10% of marriages are between first or second cousins. Cousin marriage is an important subject in...

jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In some communities and time periods, cousin marriage is allowed or even encouraged; in others, it is taboo, and considered...

in a marriage between first cousins, in which on average the members share 12.5% of inherited genetic material, but less than that of a marriage between...

Levirate marriage is a type of marriage in which the brother of a deceased man is obliged to marry his brother's widow. Levirate marriage has been practiced...

only marry either his MBD (matrilateral cross-cousin marriage) or his FZD (patrilateral cross-cousin marriage). This involves an asymmetric exchange between...

of societies where marriages between some first cousins are prohibited as incestuous, while marriages between other first cousins are encouraged. Therefore...

Group marriage or conjoint marriage is a marital arrangement where three or more adults enter into sexual, affective, romantic, or otherwise intimate...

Sapinda is a term used in context of cousin marriages. The subject is to be counted as first generation, and the common ancestor defining sapinda limit...

nephew 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...

Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία polygamía, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married...

monogamy derives from the Greek μονός, monos ("one"), and γάμος, gamos ("marriage"), referring to the functional social behaviour of pair-bonding. The term...

Similarly, the spouse of a cousin may not be called a relation at all or may be referenced as a "cousin by marriage". "By-marriage" can also be used with...

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women, birth control, marriageable age, cousin marriage, marriage of in-laws, interfaith marriage, same-sex marriage, and polygamy, among other topics, so...

Studies show that cousin-marriage in Lebanon has a lower success rate if the cousins were raised in sibling-like conditions, first-cousin unions being more...

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United States, cousin marriages are prohibited. Also, most laws make no provision for the rare case of marriage between double first cousins. Incest laws...

relatives who are also classified as cross-cousins by the logic of the kinship system. Preferential cross-cousin marriage can be useful in reaffirming alliances...

Sororate marriage is a type of marriage in which a husband engages in marriage or sexual relations with the sister of his wife, usually after the death...

other places. While cousin marriage is legal in most countries today (less often with regard to first cousins), and avunculate marriage is legal in several...