UK: First cousin marriages in Pakistani Muslim communities result in ‘appalling’ disabilities for the offspring, huge costs for the taxpayers

– UK: First cousin marriages in Pakistani Muslim communities result in ‘appalling’ disabilities for the offspring, huge costs for the taxpayers:

…

Medical data previously suggested that while British Pakistanis were responsible for 3 per cent of all births, they accounted for 30 per cent of British children born with a genetic illness.

Telegraph Baroness Flather, a former Tory who now sits as a cross-bencher, said in the House of Lords that “It is absolutely appalling that first cousin marriages in Pakistani communities are leading to so much disability among children. “You go to any such family and there will be four or five children, at least one or two of whom will have some disability.”

https://youtu.be/oDnRYNq-WU4

H/t reader kevin a.

* * *

PayPal: Donate in USD
PayPal: Donate in EUR
PayPal: Donate in GBP