Exclusive: Calls for ‘urgent action’ as study also finds stark ethnic and socio-economic disparities in child mortality and consanguinity
  • blackn1ght@feddit.ukEnglish
    171·
    10 hours ago

    The title confused me, I thought it meant that the parents were closely related to the child. Turns out it means where the two parents are closely related to each other, i.e. cousins.

  • Hoimo@ani.socialEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    There’s a lot of numbers in that article, but the most important number is missing: how common is it in the UK to have closely related parents? The only number mentioned is the 1 in 6 in Bradford, which is unbelievably high, but would mean that “1 in 14 of deceased children have consanguinous parents” is actually lower than expected.

  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    9 hours ago

    Y’all got a Birmingham too. Guess we know where Alabama got its tendencies from.