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DNA Tests Show Incest Is Less Rare Than Scientists Believed

March 20, 2024
Studies show that incest is much more common than we think, proving online DNA tests can have awful consequences.
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An article published by The Atlantic reveals that incest is far more common than researches once believed. While one 1975 psychiatric textbook estimated the prevalence of incest to be one in a million, this has...
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Stop looking at ya.
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Prima's like that. She's family man.
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Stop DM me, stop forwarding her pictures to your boys.
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That's your little cousin.
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The latest data suggests that incest occurs in about what in one
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in 7000 people in the United Kingdom,
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one genetic genealogist says she knows over 1000 cases,
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guys, over 1000 cases of incest.
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These people were born to parents who are first degree relatives.
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So, like a brother and sister or parent and child.
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And contrary to popular belief,
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many are born healthy.
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So a lot of these cases I think,
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you know, there has to have been some form of
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sexual abuse. So,
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yeah, it's family tree is short as hell.
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Just one branch. Yeah.
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Like mom, dad,
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brothers and sisters. That's my grandma and dad and grandma.
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Yeah. And I have a few cases in my family too
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Some people have found out the truth after doing
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ancestor DNA and 23 and me tests which connect you to your
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biological parents. So,
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imagine doing that,
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like with your partner and being like,
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oh shit, we're primos,
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oh my God. Like the telenovelas.
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but it's crazy because even in my family,
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I mean, it's not like,
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like brother and sister or nothing like that.
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But it's, it's like primos,
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you know, and it's like,
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like primas and primos and,
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you know, they've got married and,
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and it's like, so it could,
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it's either our second primos.
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There was one case,
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there was one case where they were first.
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That's was the baby born with the tail.
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No, they were good,
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they were good. But it,
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I mean it happens especially in the Latino family is like next
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story guys.