1 November 2002 TASHKENT, 1 November (Times.kg)–In Uzbekistan, intra-familial marriages make up approximately 15 percent of all marriages. This means that 15 percent of families knowingly risk the future of their children.Many factors in Uzbekistan make pregnancy and child-rearing difficult. These include social and ecological conditions. However, within intra-familial marriages, hereditary conditions, not social conditions, are the main factor in […]

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