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magprob · Feb 20, 2006, 07:08 PM

If a husband and wife move from Arkansas, settle in California and then divorce, are they once again considered first cousins?:confused:

CaptainForest · Feb 20, 2006, 08:14 PM

Huh?

Were they first cousins before they got married?

In which case, they would still be first cousins and a divorced couple (ex wife, ex husband)

Fr_Chuck · Feb 20, 2006, 08:49 PM

I think it is a joke, like everyone in Ark marries their cousin.

The worst ( or funnist) marriage was where a mans father married his sons ex wife. She actually left the son for the father.

CaptainForest · Feb 20, 2006, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by Fr_Chuck

I think it is a joke, like everyone in Ark marries thier cousin.

The worst ( or funnist) marriage was where a mans father married his sons ex wife. She actually left the son for the father.

Ahh, OK.

And yeah, in thoery the father has more money than the son :p

fredg · Feb 21, 2006, 06:14 AM

Hi,
Yes, you are still first cousins.
People in different states DO marry inside their families, and some just have sex inside their families! The children are usually "deformed" in some ways. I have seen this happen, and have seen the results.
I won't mention the State I am sure this happens, due to not wanting to put forth a bad image of that particular state.

Fr_Chuck · Feb 21, 2006, 08:25 AM

A lot of the studies I have read about first cousins getting married
( and God it scares me that there are actually studies of this) have shown that merely being cousins doe not lead to a real large level in the increase of birth defects.

Sorry I don't have the publications but it came out last year.

I think most of the major southern states gets those types of jokes,
W VA, TN, GA, Al, Ky AK all get their share.

I lost a few teeth from a bone issue last month, I got all of those jokes about finally looking like I was from TN, it made it easy for me to spit a chew now and so on.