For first cousins, yes, the increased risk is decently low but I’m talking about children whose parents are also brother and sister, or parent and child. The risk there is, to my understanding, much much higher. (Not a scientist or statistician though, so I’m no expert.)

Thanks for the link; was unsure of how to do so

Yeah I suppose it’s hard to really know for sure and get accurate studies... Most people aren’t exactly going to be forthcoming about that kind of thing.

I think that you have to actually know you’re related, yeah... nor sure though.

Here’s the study I was looking at, and the article that I found it in (granted, I am not at all a science person, so I fully admit that I may be not quite understanding everything that’s going on in there). The numbers did seem high to me as well, but again, I may be misinterpreting them.

Eh... most people who know they have a family history of a certain genetic condition or disease tend to avoid dating other people who have the same issues in their family background for exactly that reason.. A lot choose not to have biological children at all. Children born from a parent-child or sibling-sibling…

Yes and no, I think. Adoptees who grew up in happy and stable homes, for example, can go on to have very healthy relationships with the birth parents they didn’t meet until adulthood but people who suffer from GSA later in life always seem to be from broken homes.

You could probably make the argument, though, that many of those diseases became what they are today because of genetic inbreeding. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that genetic diseases sometimes tend to be most commonly found in people of specific ethnicities and groups that were fairly closed societies for a long…

It’s one of the few near-universal taboos because incest is really, really horrible, even if you only look at it from a societal standpoint and try to take morality out of it. When close relatives have children with one another the rates of kids with developmental and physical disabilities skyrockets pretty quickly.…

I thought that was disgusting as well. She talks about the importance of love but she clearly doesn’t give a flying shit about the two young ones who were taken away...

I don’t think you’re on the wrong side of history. There are very good reasons for laws against incest.

Of the reported cases I’ve heard of of parent-child GSA the kid never, NEVER had a happy childhood. They’re unhappy and searching for some kind of validation and their parent takes advantage of that. It’s sexual abuse.

Thanks

Yeah that’s my problem... part of me hasn’t given up on wanting to be part of his life. Seeing his photos keeps pulling me back in, so I really do need to block him.

So I never got around to “unfollowing” my ex on FB and I have lived to regret that decision. FB decided to inform me today that he and his girlfriend are on vacation. Specifically, the vacation that we had talked about taking together before I found out that I was only his dirty little secret. Ugh.

:( The whole thing sounds just awful.

I think it’s all the political posts. Hopefully after the election all the trolls will go away...

I think you’re going to have to tell her eventually but... If you feel like telling her right now would put her in a bad place maybe you should tell him that you’ve seen his profile and you know he’s on there. It might shame/frighten him into treating her better?

The last time I was on an airplane The Hateful Eight and The Revenant were options.

Those kitchen pics are giving me flashbacks to my mother’s childhood home... Trying to cook on ‘70s/’80s appliances, showing and peeing using ‘50s plumbing... I was always terrified that something was going to explode or catch on fire when we would visit.