Throughout history, it has been more common than present-day people in densely populated areas would think for, say, a man to marry a woman and then for that man's brother to marry that woman's sister. If the larger families get along, it can make a lot of sense. It gets more attention these days when the siblings are two sets of identical twins.
Becky Pemberton reported at the-sun.com on such a situation, which is more newsworthy because both couples had children within months of each other. [This post has been bumped up so external links may no longer work.]
Becky Pemberton reported at the-sun.com on such a situation, which is more newsworthy because both couples had children within months of each other. [This post has been bumped up so external links may no longer work.]
Brittany and Briana are identical twins who married identical twins Josh and Jeremy Salyers and then gave birth to babies within months of one another.
They uploaded an Instagram post of their adorable sons Jett and Jax and said they are “Cousins, genetic brothers, and quaternary twins.”
When children are born to both of those married couples, those children are first cousins twice over to each other, or "double cousins." They are first cousins through their mothers, AND first cousins through their fathers. This is true whether or not the sisters are twins and whether or not the brothers are twins. Genetically, the double first cousins are like siblings to each other. Once they are grown, legally, those first cousins can marry in about half of US states and have sex in all but a handful of US states, whereas siblings can't legally marry in any of state and can legally have sex in only three. It's another example of how ridiculous the laws are, and another example of how genetic concerns are not the reason for unconstitutional bans on the consanguineous freedoms to sexuality and marriage.
Brittany and Briana met Josh and Jeremy at a festival for twins in 2017 and the Salyers blokes proposed six months later, following a whirlwind romance.
They had a joint wedding on August 5, 2018, live in the same home in Virginia, US, and are now expanding their families together.
Twins, especially identical twins, can be very close, and as the article stated, these twins have done so much of life together, and they are living together. While the article does not say one way or the other, it isn't out of the range of possibility that this situation involves polyamory and consanguinamory. Either way, we wish them well.
Have you known of similar situations? Maybe you know of someone who ended up having marriages to more than one person from the same family? As always, feel free to comment below.
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great article about pairs of cousins
ReplyDeleteI know that twin marriages (identical or fraternal) are not uncommon. On the BBC website on July 26 of this year, there was a message about the Twins marry twins in joyous Nigerian joint wedding event (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvglvkxwxj8o ), from the Internet (TODAY, 2024) I learned about the wedding of identical twins https://www.today.com/parents/family/identical-twins-married-identical-twins-babies-are-siblings-rcna143840. This is constantly being reported in various mass media.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Keith that the logic of banning consanguinamory and related marriages for genetic reasons is absurd and hypocritical and is based only on ancient social taboos that have nothing to do with the modern world.
On the other hand, much less attention is paid to the marriages of siblings who are not twins, probably because it doesn't look so cool. But they are also double cousins, and their genetic characteristics are also very close.
I do not know what causes different pairs of identical or non-identical twins to marry. The possibility that both twins fell in love (and even at the same time) with another pair of twins and each of them fell in love with that "free" person, and not with the one chosen by another twin and they responded with the same feeling is a huge mystery to me. According to the theory of probability, such an event has a minimum of chances, but still there are.
Nevertheless, it seems to me that in many cases we are dealing not with ardent love, but with the solidarity of the twins, the desire to continue their closeness further in life, to have as much in common as possible. Besides, it's a great performance that will make a lot of noise in families, in the places where they live, and even on a global scale (alas, we are all vain and want attention).
As for polyamory and consanguinamory between two couples both before and after the wedding, I think this is possible, but I have not seen such reliable examples either in real life or on the Internet. Tho, as they say, anything goes...