Re: Dad! Mum! Please, I can explain

I hope so. I've been married to my Lovely Cousin for over thirty seven years.
She would have been seventeen or eighteen when her mum surprised us in the tent that day.

Re: Dad! Mum! Please, I can explain

It’s legal to marry a cousin.if they decided to have children, there could be birth defects.

Re: Dad! Mum! Please, I can explain

It is legal to marry a first cousin in this country. It is not necessarily the same throughout the world, which may be the reason for the question.

Birth defects are more likely where children of first cousins also marry first cousins.

In our case, my Lovely Cousin and I are not blood related, but that's another story entirely.