Primitive Paternity, Vol. 2: The Myth of Supernatural, Birth in Relation to the History of the Family (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Primitive Paternity, Vol. 2: The Myth of Supernatural, Birth in Relation to the History of the Family

The stages through which conjugal relations have passed are not uniform but dependent on environment and other influences. The stages to be renewed therefore are not necessarily consecutive. Frailty of the conjugal bond. The entertainment of temporary husbands at the wife's home. Relations beginning with secret visits by the lover tend to become open and permanent. Cupid and Psyche. Secret relations between husband and wife. Open visits by husband. Polygamous visiting husbands. Marriages in which the husband goes to reside permanently with his wife. Commutation of the husband's permanent residence in his wife's family. Husband's probation as a relic of an earlier custom of visiting. Effect of payment of bride-price. Husband's permanent residence in his wife's family; its tendency to patrilineal reckoning. Evolution of fatherright among various peoples of the Old and New Worlds. Summary: general course of the evolution of conjugal relations, and reasons for the inevitable-decay and supersession of motherright. The reckoning of kinship through the father is not founded on blood, but is a social convention.

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