Who knew? There actually IS a genetic flaw in some Mormon families

[XemaSab]

that will make a man father only girls. It comes from generations of inbreeding. :P

Learn something every day.

[kestrel91316]

1. Oy. You bad.

:banghead:

[AlCzervik]

2. Can i get you a riot shield?

:-)

[LSK]

3. Romney is no longer running

For now...

[Mountainman]

4. If they only father girls, and they marry a bunch of women and those women have more girls don't the...

run the risk of making themselves extinct? At least it will slow down the polygamy.

[XemaSab]

6. From what I'm learning about inbreeding in this group

They're in for a world of hurt with all kinds of genetic diseases.

[SharonAnn]

14. You don't need very many men for rapid breeding. You need lots of women.

[LeftyMom]

5. That might explain a family I know.

5 girls. No boys. Dad finally gave up and started giving the girls boys' names he had saved up.

And yeah, they're one of those old mormon families that's married to all the other mormon families, complete with "the look" (teeny tiny anime noses, blonde or ginger hair, freckles, really light skin.)

[Bobbieo]

7. The incest factor is finally coming out. Incest Should Be a

prime factor in the hearings.

They are, indeed, driving themselves to extiction but not fast enough in my book. It has been stated that most of the people in the the Texas and AZ-Utah compounds come from only two families - Jessop being one of them.

[XemaSab]

9. Barlow being the other one

Here's a fairly long article about inbreeding in the FLDS.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-12-29/news/forbidden-fruit/full

[pnwmom]

13. And the inbreeding is a threat to us all, in the long run.

In the case of fumerase deficiency, I read that at one point there were less than twenty cases known in the whole world. Now, thanks to the incubation of this recessive gene in these polygamist communities, the situation is very different. From your article:

"Of even greater concern was the fact that the recessive gene that triggers the disease was rapidly spreading to thousands of individuals living in the community because of decades of inbreeding."

[Quantess]

8. I think you're being 100% humorous,

but it's possible that their boy babies have a lower survival rate, due to a genetic defect.....
Purely speculation on my part.

[Bobbieo]

10. These incestuous disorders created by polygamy

have been pretty much put under the table in both AZ and Utah because of the number of Mormons in both states - particuarly in the state legislatures and governments.

The problem has a much better chance of being brought out in the open in the state of Texas,

[pnwmom]

11. I think so, too, but another poster in another thread was seriously positing

that the skewed sex ratio at the YFZ ranch was due to genetic causes.

[XemaSab]

12. Yeah, it's a genetic defect

n/t

[Wiley50]

15. FLDS Bakery since 1909 Three generations of our family in bread n/t

[senaca]

16. LDS/FLDS

I'm problably taking this wrong, but I hope your tongue and cheek post is not equating the LDS to FDLS. The LDS does not sanction the FLDS's practices.

[fed_up_mother]

17. No, they don't

However, because of strong sympathy with the FLDS cult (who live like grandma and grandpa did, "bless 'em"), it is very difficult for law enforcement and public officials to act. Read about former cult members who try to seek help from the government. It's pitiful. They're practically shunned.

[XemaSab]

18. The articles I read about it said that since the "founder" population of Utah was small

there was a lot of cousin marriage and other inbreeding in the early days, and even now Utahns descended from the original pioneer families of Utah have a fairly high rate of some genetic diseases.

I was definitely NOT equating the modern LDS and the FLDS.

In the FLDS, apparently they've got a REALLY, REALLY high rate of some VERY rare genetic diseases, in part due to modern inbreeding in their closed communities.