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==84:2. THE EARLY MOTHER-FAMILY==

==84:2. THE EARLY MOTHER-FAMILY==

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 [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.

84:2.2 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 [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]].