HOSPITAL staff have been told by officials to stop discouraging first-cousin marriages despite the increased risk of birth ...

The National Health Services staff have received warning from government-funded NHS monitoring board, urging them “stop ...

Bradford’s close-relative nurse is responsible for working with “at risk families practising close relative marriage” to ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - A new law in Connecticut is expected to go into effect on Oct. 1, banning first-cousin marriages. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers agreed on the bill earlier ...

Connecticut’s ban on marriage between first cousins — the children of siblings — takes effect Oct. 1. The law, signed on June 23, makes it one of many states that totally ban such unions. The law ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (CBS Local)-- A Utah couple, who are first cousins, are petitioning for the right to wed in their home state after they were forced to travel to Colorado to get married. Micheal ...

One step closer to keeping it out of the family. Connecticut is set to place a firm ban on marriages between first cousins at the start of October in a rare instance of unanimous agreement between ...