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distant cousin

  • 21-10-2015 3:41pm
    #1
    Purplerose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭


    A friend of mine has been textin and seein someone for the last few months, he just found out that the girl and him are distant cousins, fourth cousins! he is confused on what to do cos he likes her alot. is distant cousins a big no no? or is fourth cousin considered distant? i dont know any of my fourth cousins!that i know of anyway!


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  • #2
    Xeyn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Xeyn


    From a genetic perspective they would not be considered related, so no problems there. From a social perspective I would think there wouldn't be any problem but I wouldn't be 100% sure.


  • #3
    Magicmatilda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Magicmatilda


    So they share a great, great, great, grandfather. That seems pretty removed from me. No problems legally. I'd say this is probably common enough in a country as small as Ireland but nobody realises. How did they find out?? You'd have to do a family tree to have that much detail!


  • #4
    Penny Tration
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,687 ✭✭✭✭Penny Tration


    Well it's legal to marry your first cousin, so there's no legal or genetic issues.


    However, how close is his family? Would her parents know his? If the families don't know each other, I wouldn't see it being a problem. I'd suggest they tell the families though because it may be something that could cause aggro in the future.


  • #5
    Shrap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    Ah for goodness sake! Only in Ireland :rolleyes: My eldest recently discovered he's second cousins once removed (whatever that means) from his ex headmistress and was disgusted. I can't even work out what relationship that is, but apparently we're now related!

    I mean, ok....so it's great when you walk into a shop in the parish and people start tracing who you "belong" to and what way they're married in, etc. and it gives you a great sense of place and community, but in terms of people taking up with some very distant relative who wouldn't be in any way close enough to even be invited to the same wedding then nobody bats an eyelid.

    These things I have discovered after 20 yrs in a tiny rural village, so I think the couple in question are safe enough.


  • #6
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Fourth cousins only share 0.195% of dna so they're grand. It's more the "ick" factor, which is only in their minds.


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