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  • Let's be clear: Do you favor an end to incest laws and those laws that prevent certain consanguinous marriages?

    Cue outrage in three, two, one… 2007

  • Rhode Island - Chapter 15-1 indicates persons eligible to marry, which prohibits consanguinous marriages and bigamy, and 15-12, which establishes 18 as the minimum age.

    Gay Marriage in Portland 2004

  • With the help of the symptoms and other morbid manifestations, psychoanalysis can trace their unconscious thoughts and translate them into the conscious, and thus easily show to such persons that they are in love with their consanguinous relations in the popular meaning of the term.

    Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

  • Scientists have to resort to the method of inbreeding or consanguinous mating for several generations to receive genetically identical animals.

    Pravda.Ru 2009

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