Comment on One in 14 children who die in England have closely related parents, study finds
Hoimo@ani.social 2 days ago
There’s a lot of numbers in that article, but the most important number is missing: how common is it in the UK to have closely related parents? The only number mentioned is the 1 in 6 in Bradford, which is unbelievably high, but would mean that “1 in 14 of deceased children have consanguinous parents” is actually lower than expected.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Anacdotal experience only. But I’d suggest it’s way more common then folks know.
More so from the 1970s and before. And in rural areas of the UK.
As a teen My GPs lived in a farming village. And would hint at it when I visited and got to know a few local girls. I did not think much of it at the time.
Post Uni I lived with them for a few months. And got to know one of these girls way better. To the point she felt the need to explain why she never wanted children.
Apparently she knew a few others in the village were in the same situation. For timing this was mid 80s we were both in our mid 20s at the time. So he mother likely finishes school in the 60s. And I know sex education in schools was very hit and miss due to political attitudes at the time.
But news over the last 30+ years. Would lead me to recognise while Insest is no less common. Pro Choice really matters for more reasons then most would expect.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
I used to work in this field, and we would do pedigree analysis a lot on families, usually with some kind of disease.
Anyway, we would construct the family tree, plug it into the stats software and it would tell us: “No. These two people are not cousins, but something closer.”
We couldn’t ask the families, so we would swap a grandfather for a father, or a mother for a sister, and - hey presto - everything lines up.
This happened in about 1 in 10 families we studied. This type of things is way waaay more common than people think,
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Thanks for sharing. Nice to have less anacdotal evidence.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Usually don’t have to look too far to start seeing the skeletons :P