The young British Pakistani women prepared to marry their COUSINS in order to keep their families happy - but risk giving birth to disabled children
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The young British Pakistani women prepared to marry their COUSINS in order to keep their families happy - but risk giving birth to disabled children
[*]BBC Three documentary Should I Marry My Cousin? follows 18-year-old Hiba
[*]She is on a quest to figure out whether she should follow her family tradition
[*]Hiba speaks with her own relatives as well as two sisters on their wedding day
[*]They marry their own cousins in a double ceremony
[*]Hiba looks at research from the 'Born in Bradford' study which is a long-term study of 13,500 children born in 2007 whose health is being tracked
[*]Worried over potential genetic issues when having children with a cousin, the research shocks Hiba who chooses not to marry her own relative
It may be controversial but it is legal to marry your cousin in the UK. And for British Pakistanis the practise is common with an estimated 55 percent of them doing so. For some Muslim girls it is an arrangement they agree to in order to keep their families happy, as Bradford-born Hiba Maroof discovered in BBC Three documentary 'Should I Marry My Cousin'. The 18-year-old is faced with the dilemma of whether she should follow family tradition and marry a cousin or tie the knot with a man of her own choice. Hiba speaks to family members and also other British Pakistani women who are at the same crossroads as her.
Her 18-year-old cousin Amin sums up the pressure they face when she tells her: 'Sometimes you have to listen to your parents as well to keep them happy. So if you don’t listen to your parents they think that you don’t love them.'
Hiba admits she has concerns over the health issues of interbreeding.
A recent report revealed that while British Pakistanis were responsible for three per cent of all births, they accounted for 30 per cent of British children born with a genetic illness.
'That many children shouldn’t be disabled if it can be helped.
'I’m not going to lie the genetic talk scares me,' Hiba said.
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[*]She is on a quest to figure out whether she should follow her family tradition
[*]Hiba speaks with her own relatives as well as two sisters on their wedding day
[*]They marry their own cousins in a double ceremony
[*]Hiba looks at research from the 'Born in Bradford' study which is a long-term study of 13,500 children born in 2007 whose health is being tracked
[*]Worried over potential genetic issues when having children with a cousin, the research shocks Hiba who chooses not to marry her own relative
It may be controversial but it is legal to marry your cousin in the UK. And for British Pakistanis the practise is common with an estimated 55 percent of them doing so. For some Muslim girls it is an arrangement they agree to in order to keep their families happy, as Bradford-born Hiba Maroof discovered in BBC Three documentary 'Should I Marry My Cousin'. The 18-year-old is faced with the dilemma of whether she should follow family tradition and marry a cousin or tie the knot with a man of her own choice. Hiba speaks to family members and also other British Pakistani women who are at the same crossroads as her.
Her 18-year-old cousin Amin sums up the pressure they face when she tells her: 'Sometimes you have to listen to your parents as well to keep them happy. So if you don’t listen to your parents they think that you don’t love them.'
Hiba admits she has concerns over the health issues of interbreeding.
A recent report revealed that while British Pakistanis were responsible for three per cent of all births, they accounted for 30 per cent of British children born with a genetic illness.
'That many children shouldn’t be disabled if it can be helped.
'I’m not going to lie the genetic talk scares me,' Hiba said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4674136/The-British-Pakistani-women-marrying-COUSINS.html#ixzz4mEDHSVEM
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