March 24th, 1992. In this audience questions segment of Geraldo Rivera’s namesake talk show we hear from the related and married couples on stage.
“Is there really, as the audience member suggests….a risk, a genetic risk that the child might be born retarded or in some way malformed?”
What are the real dangers of families marrying within? Dr. Kenneth Adams clues us in to the emotional risks and precursors he claims are in every case, even those represented on stage. Sandra Snellgrove, a guest who is involved with her cousin, gives hints to the truthfulness of that argument describing two prior abusive marriages.
In 24 of the U.S. states cousin marriages are prohibited.
This day, Geraldo’s television history.