A sad story from Australia -- lost children in the hills

[Askthepizzaguy]

People live in rural, outdoor, or impoverished conditions all the time, and no one says a peep.

The story is the people in that "family" were basically forced to breed with their siblings, taught all their lives that this is acceptable.

That's the story.

Why are they focusing on the "living conditions?"

Some people in normal families don't live any better than the conditions mentioned.

 

[CavLancer]

Well, nice slide anyway, but no pool! Barbarism! That and incest, yes there's a few issues that need to be ironed out...but the place is clean. Considering the way the story is written I wonder how mentally challenged the kids really are? How many generations did the European elite inbreed before they went a bit whacky? Btw how far removed does one have to be genetically in order to avoid any chance of 2 headed idiots? I know brother and sister are right out, but how far is far enough?

This is in Australia? I say this is an opportunity to study the royal mindset.

 

[Arwon]

This is in Australia? I say this is an opportunity to study the royal mindset.

uhhhhh

 

[Tee Kay]

but how far is far enough?

Further than this, I suspect

Curiously enough, the Incan royal family was extremely inbred and there were little ill-effects documented that we know of.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

"incest cult"? This isn't a broadsheet, is it?

So, did they find any incest bunkers?

 

[Camikaze]

Just waiting for the international media to discover Tasmania.

 

[Tee Kay]

I was going to make that comment myself but thought it might be in bad taste.

 

[Farm Boy]

Well, nice slide anyway, but no pool! Barbarism! That and incest, yes there's a few issues that need to be ironed out...but the place is clean. Considering the way the story is written I wonder how mentally challenged the kids really are? How many generations did the European elite inbreed before they went a bit whacky? Btw how far removed does one have to be genetically in order to avoid any chance of 2 headed idiots? I know brother and sister are right out, but how far is far enough?

This is in Australia? I say this is an opportunity to study the royal mindset.

From Wiki, Keeper of All Human Knowledge:

Typical coancestries between relatives are as follows:

Father/daughter, mother/son or brother/sister → 25% (1⁄4)
Grandfather/granddaughter or grandmother/grandson → 12.5% (1⁄8)
Half-brother/half-sister, Double cousins → 12.5% (1⁄8)
Uncle/niece or aunt/nephew → 12.5% (1⁄8)
Great-grandfather/great-granddaughter or great-grandmother/great-grandson → 6.25% (1⁄16)
Half-uncle/niece or half-aunt/nephew → 6.25% (1⁄16)
First cousins → 6.25% (1⁄16)

If I remember my science at all, which is getting sketchy, those are the odds that the child produced by such a pairing over one generation is going to wind up with two identical copies of the same gene. Which can be really harmful if it's a defective copy with no healthy gene in the pair to reduce its expression. The "static" rate of non-incestuous birth defects hovers somewhere around, what, 3%? What I'm not sure about is at what rate these risk rates increase over repeated generations. I'm going to assume after 3 generations of parent/sibling or sibling/sibling pairings with no fresh genetics those genes are going to get really "thin" and those rates will be significantly higher.

 

[CavLancer]

All said and done if Europe should decide to return to monarchy they should make this family into kings and queens.

I suppose the super rich 1% is doing the same thing but with a slightly larger gene pool it might take them a tad longer to turn into giggling idiots. Lets hope that fools and their money are soon parted.

Interesting charts taillesskangaru and Farm Boy, thanks. At one point I thought my Swiss 2nd cousin was pretty hot...actually really very sexy woman. Shoulda woulda coulda.

 

[useless]

I would have expected this from the American South, not Australia... At least it's not dingoes.

 

[plarq]

Continuous incest increases genetic defects greatly