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It's a concern, but having a greater chance for expressing recessive traits that can be undesirable can benefit from genetic testing before/after and can help any hopeful couples to understand their risks/results. Given the kind of consideration for health and well-being that this game has showed between F and D over its course, I think it would be completely within their character to approach the concept of conceiving with precautionary genetic counseling.Inbreeding is fraught with the possibility of adverse, multiple genetic disorders, as witnessed by the European Royal Family. So I want that if D gets in "the family way" Martin (with a lot of MMF scenes) is the lucky sperm donor and F gets Olivia, Jennifer, Georgina, Elana, Margo
& Rachel preggo at the ending of the game.
That is, we don't automatically see a list of horrific, inherited traits from a one-off related pairing - even though their chances of creating offspring with recessive trait selection is elevated vs. sharing genetic material with a random, unrelated member of the general population. My biologically unrelated parents had kids with a range of recessive trait defects - but, they didn't have preventative genetic testing in those days. My unrelated spouse and I went through genetic counseling specifically because of my family's genetic background. D and F could do that from consideration of their related genetic material, too.
Certainly, the chances of selecting for undesirable recessive gene combinations tends to increase with successive generations built upon inbreeding. That's the (European, Egyptian, etc.) royal family situation you mentioned.
But, it would be a neat evolution to manage in the game if all the potential "mating" partners get genetic testing and then decide to interbreed across relationship lines based on the results - rearing respective kids in family situations that don't necessarily reflect the biological pairings meant to offer safest outcomes, but instead by the loving parent pairs. It's actually not unheard of IRL ...