‘It’s not a big deal’: Utah mom doesn’t expect baby name search to find out she’s married to third cousin
Not long ago, more specifically on November 15, 2022, the world population reached 8 billion. When you still lose your friends in the shopping center during a sale, it’s hard to imagine so many people in one place.
But “what a small world” wasn’t as true as this woman who married her cousin without knowing it. Their close relationship didn’t surface until I started researching their genealogy.
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Marriage between cousins used to be commonplace, but it’s not so common now, but that’s true even if the couple’s people aren’t aware of it.
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Marcella Hill is an author and CEO passionate about women’s health and well-being. She has almost 300,000 followers on her TikTok and continues her discussion of the less talked about part of women’s health.
She rarely talks about her personal life, but until recently she made a confession that was seen by over a million people. Apparently, she never told this secret in her public life, but it’s a very rare story that she’s had to share it.
The woman was pregnant, and she and her husband were sitting on the couch looking up the names of their upcoming baby. They soon realized that there were many with the same name. The woman’s logical explanation was that her husband had not logged out of his account.
The problem was that they were both logged into their accounts and the reason we have the same person in the family tree is because they were related. to confirm it’s true.
Marcela and her husband have been looking for a name for their midterm baby and have opened up their family tree
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So husband and wife are third cousins. The couple did not know until then, as the family had not yet met. The husband and wife met through mutual friends after their divorce, but when it came time to get married, it was their second marriage, so they went to court after work on Wednesday.A big family celebration.
when bored panda When asked how she, her husband, and their family reacted, Marcella said it was just surprising and strange, but nothing had changed for her and her husband. Their families found it funny because they didn’t know each other either.
As Marcella said daily mailwhen the parents found out they were relatives, their first concern was the effect on the baby.
They realized that the branch was the same and figured they should both be logged into Marcella’s account.
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Third and fourth cousins can safely have children and are actually called “kissing cousins”. Scientists say having children is not only safe, but it makes biological sense.
As live science “Cousin couples may have inbreeding problems, while couples far from each other may have genetic incompatibility.”
Kari Stephenson A professor at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík, who led a study on the relationship between kinship and fertility in human couples, said: Reproduce. ”
However, they definitely looked at their accounts and realized that their grandparents were cousins, making them third cousins.
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A third cousin is far enough away to have a child, but if people are closely related, there is a good chance that both parents have the same disease, so a child may be born unhealthy. It is also true that the – causes variants.
But people aren’t just concerned about the possibility of consanguineous couples having unhealthy children. , considers it morally wrong and strange for relatives to marry, even if they are distant relatives.
However, Marcella says: When a couple has children, brother and sister live separate lives and have children of their own. And those children had children and you are not in the same family at that point there were 4 different surnames given to women by that point also the blood that was shared was her 1 % less than When a couple looks up their family history, many people are surprised to find that they are “blood related.” ”
They called the grandparents to confirm that it was true and the couple were concerned about their child’s health but thankfully they had nothing to worry about
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Image credit: @beingmarcellahill
You can watch the viral video below
@beingmarcellahill Funny story… I ended up marrying my cousin. It never occurred to me that my grandpa and grandma were cousins. Oops. #funny story #Marcella Hill #wakeherup #marriage ＃married life #wake up #momsoftiktok #grandmasoftiktok ♬ original sound – Marcella Gil
It’s clear that this story has caused controversy for Marcela’s comments being turned off, but from what’s still available on the internet, it seems that some people are fed up, while others believe the relationship I believed there was nothing wrong with know about it
What do you think about this? Do you think that relatives should never be romantically involved even if they don’t plan to have children of their own? Do you think love is love as long as two people agree? Is there a line to be drawn? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
Some people found the relationship odd, while others thought the third cousin was distant enough to be married.
