According to the Telegraph, the NHS has been told to “stop discouraging cousin marriage”:
The National Child Mortality Database (NCMD) told NHS staff “it is unacceptable to discourage close relative marriage in a blanket way” because parents are only at a “slightly increased” risk of having a child with a genetic disorder.
It said genetic counsellors should meet the couple and their relatives to advise them on how to “consider arranging future marriages outside of the family”.
