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writes:I'm 17 years old, and I have been with my boyfriend for 3 years, and we love each other very much. But recently we found out we are third cousins and we are both thinking about the future. Is it safe for us to have children together?
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reader, C. Grant +, writes (1 March 2011):
 If you are third cousins, that means that the blood tie comes from a great-great grandparent. That's so distant a relation that the chance of a bad genetic reinforcement is scarcely higher than for someone you're not related to.
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reader, chigirl  +, writes (1 March 2011):
 Are third cousins the children of cousins? As in your parents and his parents are cousins? If so then yes, relatively safe. It's not illegal. The reason many countries prohibit marriage inside of close family is because of the risk for birth defects in children. But I've only heard of that law extending as far out as to cousins. Not further.
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