Without first cousin marriages and the resulting “mentally-disabled” offspring, how can the family immigrate to the US and live off of SSI? She destroyed their dream.
Excuse me, but first-cousin marriages are for the most part perfectly genetically safe and in fact were HONORABLE and ACCEPTABLE in Western culture up until recently, historically speaking. READ JANE AUSTEN. The ridiculous and stupid paranoia around first-cousin marriages, which has WRONGLY made them shameful and embarrassing, mortifies MANY Americans today who are afraid to admit that their grandparents, or great grandparents, were cousins who married -- said marriage being in fact perfectly honorable and right.
HG Wells married his first cousin. Werner von Braun married his first cousin. Albert Einstein married his second cousin. Edgar Allen Poe married his first cousin. Queen Victoria married her cousin. MANY historical figures married cousins, including first cousins, and in fact, birth defects from first-cousin marriages are not remotely as common as popular myth has it. I know this for certain because I lived among folks who have been marrying first cousins for four generations, and most of their kids are just fine.
It is disgusting that the idea of first-cousin marriages, a perfectly good thing, has been distorted and twisted and perverted by today's culture. INCEST is between siblings or between parent and child. There are ZERO biblical warnings against first-cousin marriages.