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Nov 2013
10:06am, 14 Nov 2013
6,377 posts
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AngusClydesdale
"Quiet incest flourished where the roads were bad" (Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee, 1959).
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Nov 2013
10:08am, 14 Nov 2013
19,777 posts
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Johnny Blaze
It's not looking good for the M25 corridor, then.
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Nov 2013
10:16am, 14 Nov 2013
1,001 posts
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Fellrunning
In this case "Incest" is the wrong word - it implies consent...
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Nov 2013
10:27am, 14 Nov 2013
7,051 posts
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Joopsy
Oi, I live in Lincolnshire! I must add though that I wasn't raised here.
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Nov 2013
10:41am, 14 Nov 2013
14,971 posts
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DeeGee
My wife was raised here. She married me to get a different surname from everyone else in the town.
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Nov 2013
10:54am, 14 Nov 2013
28,119 posts
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Velociraptor
When we moved to where we live now, my youngest daughter got laughed at for saying that she thought there was something odd about "going out with" your cousin. The other kids were all a bit like, "Well, why wouldn't you?"
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Nov 2013
10:58am, 14 Nov 2013
3,224 posts
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Wobbling
My mum was engaged to a cousin. She has a hooogue family and didn't realise he was related, until they both turned up at the same funeral.
MrW has cousins who married - one of their children had terrible birth defects and died before their 10th birthday.
Blimey, I'm a little ray of sunshine today.
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Nov 2013
11:03am, 14 Nov 2013
26,249 posts
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JenL
We have relatives who are married and are first cousins of each other. Their two sons are in the 30s and seem to be fine, decent lads as far as we know.
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Nov 2013
11:12am, 14 Nov 2013
9,556 posts
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McGoohan
Now, many many years ago
When I was twenty three
I was married to a widow
Who was pretty as could be
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Had hair of red
My father fell in love with her
And soon the two were wed
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life
My daughter was my mother
'Cause she was my father's wife
To complicate the matters
Even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy
My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle
Though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle
That also made him the brother
Of the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother
I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I'm my own grandpa
My father's wife then had a son
That kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild
For he was my daughter's son
My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue
Because, she is my wife
She's my grandmother too
I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I'm my own grandpa
Now, if my wife is my grandmother
Then, I am her grandchild
And every time I think of it
It nearly drives me wild
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw
As the husband of my grandmother
I am my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I'm my own grandpa
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Nov 2013
11:12am, 14 Nov 2013
28,121 posts
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Velociraptor
When I worked in Birmingham, I was struck by how many first-cousin marriages produced completely unremarkable offspring 
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