Official figures have revealed that more infant deaths are linked to marriages between cousins than drug abuse during pregnancy. Data from the National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) linked close relative marriages to the deaths or ill health of 72 infants younger than one-year-old in 2023/24. Meanwhile 27 deaths were linked to substance abuse during the pregnancy.
Well, that sounds like something the government should be taking a stand o...
Silly me. But then, even the NHS sees fit to ignore it.
The fresh findings come just weeks after the NHS was blasted for releasing fresh guidance that claimed cousin marriage offers benefits such as 'stronger extended family support systems'.
Not if the family doesn't survive, surely?
It makes you wonder if the guidelines for accepting first cousin marriages are being made by the offspring of such marriages.
ReplyDeletePenseivat
Heh! They might as well be!
Delete"benefits such as 'stronger extended family support systems'"
ReplyDeleteSurely if you keep it in the family then your potential support group is one family, whereas if you marry into a different familly then you have a potential support group twice the size?
John T
Logic isn't their strong point.
DeleteFact: Village idiots virtually became a thing of the past with the invention of the railway. Lads looking for a wife could court several villages away.
ReplyDeleteThen we imported cultures who were too lazy to even get on a train.
John T
Sad...
DeleteThe cousin fuckers love the extra money from the state for their mong children.
ReplyDeleteYep Matt, the Child Service budget in the Islamic Republic of Bradistan is entirely spent on window lickers.
ReplyDeleteWhat will that town eventually become.?
DeleteFirst cousin marriages in their native countries cause no problems but they also offer the benefit of maintaining the family’s wealth in a tight orbit. The defective births don’t matter because they are merely allowed to die, there’ll be plenty more coming along any time.
ReplyDeleteThe difference in Britain is the free NHS approach to preserving all life, whatever the cost and whatever the quality of that life. Add to that a lifetime of SEND schooling and generous benefits and you soon work out that it’s costing the rest of us.
Too much!
Delete‘NHS England said that it withdrew the article because it had been published by mistake. It said that the blog was not intended as policy or advice to clinicians but as a summary of existing public policy debate.
ReplyDeleteBut one expert who was quoted in the blog said that its contents were “extremely uncontentious” and “very substantially factually based” and that he did not know why it had been pulled.’ (BMJ, 1st Oct)
"...he did not know why it had been pulled."
ReplyDeleteNot very bright then is he?
Stonyground.
Indeed not.
Delete"Stronger extended family support systems", the sort that marry girls off at 14, and kill them if they don't comply.
ReplyDeleteSteven