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84:2.1 The [[woman]]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cycle periodic hemorrhage] and her further loss of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood blood] at [[childbirth]] early suggested blood as the [[creator]] of the child (even as the seat of the [[soul]]) and gave [[origin]] to the blood-bond [[concept]] of [[human]] [[relationships]]. In early times all [[descent]] was reckoned in the [[female]] line, that being the only part of inheritance which was at all certain.

84:2.1 The [[woman]]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cycle periodic hemorrhage] and her further loss of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood blood] at [[childbirth]] early suggested blood as the [[creator]] of the child (even as the seat of the [[soul]]) and gave [[origin]] to the blood-bond [[concept]] of [[human]] [[relationships]]. In early times all [[descent]] was reckoned in the [[female]] line, that being the only part of inheritance which was at all certain.

84:2.2 The [[primitive]] [[family]], growing out of the [[instinctive]] [[biologic]] blood bond of [[mother]] and [[child]], was inevitably a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality mother-family]; and many [[tribes]] long held to this arrangement. The mother-family was the only possible [[transition]] from the stage of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_marriage group marriage] in the horde to the later and improved [[home]] life of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy polygamous] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy monogamous] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrilineal father-families]. The mother-family was [[natural]] and [[biologic]]; the father-family is [[social]], [[economic]], and [[political]]. The [[persistence]] of the mother-family among the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas North American red men] is one of the chief reasons why the otherwise [[progressive]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois Iroquois] never became a real [[state]].

84:2.2 The [[primitive]] [[family]], growing out of the [[instinctive]] [[biologic]] blood bond of [[mother]] and [[child]], was inevitably a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality mother-family]; and many [[tribes]] long held to this arrangement. The mother-family was the only possible [[transition]] from the stage of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_marriage group marriage] in the horde to the later and improved [[home]] life of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygamy polygamous] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogamy monogamous] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrilineal father-families]. The mother-family was [[natural]] and [[biologic]]; the father-family is [[social]], [[economic]], and [[political]]. The [[persistence]] of the mother-family among the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas North American red men] is one of the chief reasons why the otherwise [[progressive]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois Iroquois] never became a real [[state]].

84:2.3 Under the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality mother-family] [[mores]] the [[wife]]'s [[mother]] enjoyed [[virtually]] supreme [[authority]] in the [[home]]; even the wife's brothers and their sons were more [[active]] in [[family]] supervision than was the [[husband]]. [[Fathers]] were often renamed after their own [[children]].

84:2.3 Under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality mother-family] [[mores]] the [[wife]]'s [[mother]] enjoyed [[virtually]] supreme [[authority]] in the [[home]]; even the wife's brothers and their sons were more [[active]] in [[family]] supervision than was the [[husband]]. [[Fathers]] were often renamed after their own [[children]].

84:2.4 The earliest races gave little credit to the [[father]], looking upon the child as coming altogether from the [[mother]]. They believed that [[children]] resembled the [[father]] as a result of [[association]], or that they were "marked" in this [[manner]] because the mother [[desired]] them to look like the [[father]]. Later on, when the switch came from the mother-family to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrilineal father-family], the [[father]] took all credit for the child, and many of the [[taboos]] on a [[pregnant]] [[woman]] were subsequently extended to include her [[husband]]. The prospective [[father]] ceased [[work]] as the time of delivery approached, and at [[childbirth]] he went to bed, along with the wife, remaining at rest from three to eight days. The wife might arise the next day and engage in hard [[labor]], but the [[husband]] remained in bed to receive congratulations; this was all a part of the early [[mores]] designed to [[establish]] the [[father]]'s [[right]] to the child.

84:2.4 The earliest races gave little credit to the [[father]], looking upon the child as coming altogether from the [[mother]]. They believed that [[children]] resembled the [[father]] as a result of [[association]], or that they were "marked" in this [[manner]] because the mother [[desired]] them to look like the [[father]]. Later on, when the switch came from the mother-family to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrilineal father-family], the [[father]] took all credit for the child, and many of the [[taboos]] on a [[pregnant]] [[woman]] were subsequently extended to include her [[husband]]. The prospective [[father]] ceased [[work]] as the time of delivery approached, and at [[childbirth]] he went to bed, along with the wife, remaining at rest from three to eight days. The wife might arise the next day and engage in hard [[labor]], but the [[husband]] remained in bed to receive congratulations; this was all a part of the early [[mores]] designed to [[establish]] the [[father]]'s [[right]] to the child.

84:2.5 At first, it was the [[custom]] for the man to go to his [[wife]]'s people, but in later times, after a man had paid or worked out the bride price, he could take his [[wife]] and [[children]] back to his own people. The [[transition]] from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality mother-family] to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrilineal father-family] explains the otherwise meaningless prohibitions of some types of cousin [[marriages]] while others of [[equal]] [[kinship]] are approved.

84:2.5 At first, it was the [[custom]] for the man to go to his [[wife]]'s people, but in later times, after a man had paid or worked out the bride price, he could take his [[wife]] and [[children]] back to his own people. The [[transition]] from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality mother-family] to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrilineal father-family] explains the otherwise meaningless prohibitions of some types of cousin [[marriages]] while others of [[equal]] [[kinship]] are approved.

84:2.6 With the passing of the [[hunter]] [[mores]], when herding gave man [[control]] of the chief [[food]] supply, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality mother-family] came to a speedy end. It failed simply because it could not successfully [[compete]] with the newer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrilineal father-family]. [[Power]] lodged with the [[male]] relatives of the [[mother]] could not [[compete]] with power [[concentrated]] in the [[husband]]-[[father]]. [[Woman]] was not [[equal]] to the combined tasks of childbearing and of exercising continuous [[authority]] and increasing [[domestic]] [[power]]. The oncoming of wife stealing and later wife purchase hastened the passing of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality mother-family].

84:2.6 With the passing of the [[hunter]] [[mores]], when herding gave man [[control]] of the chief [[food]] supply, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality mother-family] came to a speedy end. It failed simply because it could not successfully [[compete]] with the newer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrilineal father-family]. [[Power]] lodged with the [[male]] relatives of the [[mother]] could not [[compete]] with power [[concentrated]] in the [[husband]]-[[father]]. [[Woman]] was not [[equal]] to the combined tasks of childbearing and of exercising continuous [[authority]] and increasing [[domestic]] [[power]]. The oncoming of wife stealing and later wife purchase hastened the passing of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality mother-family].

84:2.7 The stupendous [[change]] from the mother-family to the father-family is one of the most [[radical]] and complete right-about-face [[adjustments]] ever [[executed]] by the [[human]] [[race]]. This change led at once to greater [[social]] [[expression]] and increased [[family]] [[adventure]].

84:2.7 The stupendous [[change]] from the mother-family to the father-family is one of the most [[radical]] and complete right-about-face [[adjustments]] ever [[executed]] by the [[human]] [[race]]. This change led at once to greater [[social]] [[expression]] and increased [[family]] [[adventure]].

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