In the UK and across Europe, cousin marriage is coming under increased scrutiny - particularly from doctors, who warn that children of first cousins are more likely to experience an array of health ...

When cousins reproduce, there is also an elevated risk of passing on genetic disorders, including congenital heart diseases, ...

A former British Conservative minister and current MP renewed his push in Parliament last week for legislation that bans ...

Professor Dominic Wilkinson, an NHS neonatologist and ethics expert at the University of Oxford, argued a ban on cousin marriages, recently proposed by MPs, was 'unethical'. Instead ...

A bill that proposes to ban first-cousin marriage in the UK will receive its second reading in the House of Commons on March 7. The bill, proposed by Conservative former minister Richard Holden ...

Ayesha, who at 29 is the oldest of the three sisters, also married her first cousin in 2017. She has two children with her husband and their marriage is happy, she says. It felt perfectly normal ...

A former British Conservative minister and current MP renewed his push in Parliament last week for legislation that bans first-cousin marriage, prompting opposition from the ruling Labour party ...

And like most Austen novels, the conversation often turns to marriage. The sisters are preparing for a family wedding at the weekend - where the bride and groom are first cousins. Many people ...