What is the dating cousin cutoff?

You share a great-great grandparent apparently...if it is your true third cousin and not some related by marriage garbage. I say it's fine. Hardly related.

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Man, we live in the game of thrones generation. Love who you want.

0/10, try harder.

The cutoff is when you actually know that you are blood related to someone.

Some couples may be distance relatives and just do not know it. That's fine.

Wasn't this one of the examples from the thread listing things that are classy to do if you're rich and trashy if you are poor?

Move to the south and there is no cutoff. Sister. Mom. It's all good there.

pr man wrote:

And no, I do not live in the south

Classic redneck denial

Look at map of the states. If you are in one of the ones across the bottom, first cousin is socially acceptable as long as not the same gender. The next layer up (think Tennessee, Oklahoma) second cousins are fine. In the next 2 layers, I'm pretty sure 3rd cousins are fine. In fact, pretty much everyone living there is a 3rd cousin or closer. If you are further north than that, you typically can't date within the Christmas family gathering at all.

pics?

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pics?

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Friends share as much DNA as fourth cousins: http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_3/10796.longYou're one level closer, but it's probably not too bad.Additionally:In a study of people in Iceland, third and fourth cousins were found to have more children on average http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-incest-is-best-kissi/

In some cases—typically during a second pregnancy—when a woman gets pregnant, she and her fetus may have incompatible blood cells, which could trigger the mother's immune system to treat the fetus as a foreign intruder, causing a miscarriage. This occurrence is less probable if the parents are closely related, because their blood makeup is more likely to match.

"It may well be that the enhanced reproductive success observed in the Iceland study at the level of third [and] fourth cousins, who on average would be expected to have inherited 0.8 percent to 0.2 percent of their genes from a common ancestor," Bittles says, "represents this point of balance between the competing advantages and disadvantages of inbreeding and outbreeding."

You'll probably be OK. But was your shared ancestor any good at running?

Your sister should be at least three years younger than you.

you're fine mate

letsracer wrote:

Man, we live in the game of thrones generation. Love who you want.

Yeah, go after lets racer's spouse or future spouse.

FDR, one of the greatest Pres ever. married his 5th cousin. She didn't even have to change her name. Only had to keep the fact that she preferred women a secret. To some....

pr man wrote:

I am 18 yr old male and will be a senior in HS next year. This summer I have been hooking up with a girl who is my third cousin. Before things go too far and we fall in love, is this acceptable in society? I have always thought first cousin was a no-no, second cousin was frowned upon, but after that it was cool. Just wanted to get peoples opinions. And no, I do not live in the south

You're good as long as she is at least 14 years old (12 in some states)

Can you play piano? With your feet?

6 wrote:

FDR, one of the greatest Pres ever.

FDR was a terrible president. He prolonged the Great Depression with a battery of failed policies, interned Japanese Americans during WW2, kept us out until another country had to bomb us into it, and was a eugenicist who promoted sterilization as a means of population manipulation.

married his 5th cousin. She didn't even have to change her name.

I was about to run off an post that it was even closer than that, but I just double checked my facts, and you're correct, it was 5th cousin.

Only had to keep the fact that she preferred women a secret. To some....

Now this I'm just not sure I can trust from some source on the internet. Was this a thing, or just some joke in Wedding Crashers?