Do you know what a family is? That's right, this is a cell of society. Not a single civilized nation could do without creating a strong family. The future of all mankind cannot be imagined without her.
Terms
Let's look at the links between the concepts of "family" and "marriage". These two significant words occurred at different historical times. Marriage is a changing form of relationship that occurs between a woman and a man. With the help of this form, society regulates sexual life, and also establishes parental, marital duties and rights. The family performs a more complex method of relations: it has the peculiarity of uniting not only husband and wife, but also their common children, as well as relatives. Along with the development of society, the family also develops under the influence of social and economic conditions.
Throughout the history of mankind, a lot of forms of public management of relations between a man and a woman have changed. Whatever they were, absolutely all corresponded to economic and social conditions. Once upon a time, primitive people lived in an unordered form of sexual relations, because then there were no restrictions. They were created a little later. Over time, such connections began to disrupt the lives of primitive people. The pre-society has a dilemma: either constant readiness and death, or cyclic readiness and return to the previous, more dependent state of nature. Therefore, in order to curb such an animal sexual instinct, they began to create prohibitions. These taboos helped primitive people keep themselves within the established limits.
In relations between a man and a woman, sexual relations between relatives (parents and children) were excluded. This can be considered a boundary in history between people before marriage, when their sex life was subject only to natural instincts, and after marriage, when attraction to the opposite sex manifested itself exclusively within the family. And it became impossible to marry sisters, to marry brother or father. The strictest ban was established on this.
A new form of relationship
However, with the onset of such changes in society, when clan and tribe began to form, a group marriage arose. This is a form of relationship between a man and a woman, which required the prohibition of sexual intercourse within one primitive family. It was allowed to make contact only with representatives from another tribe. This prohibition is scientifically called "exogamy". And some researchers give an explanation of how primitive people came to this.
- In tribes where sexual relations took place between all relatives indiscriminately, inferiorchildren.
- People could not communicate only with each other all their lives when there were other tribes around. They needed to have sexual contact with representatives of a different kind in order to develop further.
- The only way they could achieve harmony and peace within their tribes, because natural attraction very often provoked strong conflicts between the sexes in the same way.
What happened?
Group form of marriage probably for these reasons and appeared. But such unions did not lead to the creation of families. It turned out that the children were common, that is, they belonged to the whole family, and, accordingly, their upbringing was carried out by a whole commune. Primitive people believed that husbands were not biologically related in any way to the children born to their wives.
They were convinced that the woman became pregnant from the arrival of the spirit, which instilled a child in her body. And her third-party relationship was not considered treason, because, according to men, in their absence, a spirit came to a woman and impregnated her.
Forbidden Fruit
We learned that group marriage is a form of relationship between people from different families, clans or tribes. For example, women and men from one tribe could contact in terms of sexual relations with representatives from another clan, but never with each other. And all because group marriage in primitive society forbade such contacts. Of course, in such a relationship it is very difficult to determine from whom children are born. Therefore, when there was a group marriage, children were recognized only through the female line. As a rule, they were brought up by the brothers of the wife. With such incomprehensible relationships, stable families could not be created.
How are things today?
Group marriage in Russia also existed and probably exists to this day, but no one talks about it. Over time, such relationships have become unacceptable in our society. Group marriage was replaced by a pair marriage, when one man is married to one woman, and there are no strangers between them. This is the family. Fathers know their children, and all this is documented. And walking a woman "to the side" is considered treason.
In our modern society, group marriage is something out of the ordinary and is considered shameful - such families are not taken seriously. Now, in general, young people do not seek to cement themselves with family ties, and especially to have children. According to them, marriage is too difficult and responsible.
Group marriage eventually gave rise to a matriarchy that lasted for many years. But then other times came to replace these times … Popes wanted to know their children exactly, and this type of marriage died. There may be several peoples all over the world today who practice this way of life. But matriarchy and group marriage have been replaced by monogamy, which means that the time has come for virginity and patriarchy. In modern families, men are in the lead, they are considered heads, all responsibility for their relatives falls on their shoulders.
In conclusion
Before, it was possible to change one connection for the same one, but in a different place,easily. People were not attached to each other. But now, in order to get a divorce, you need to go through many instances, sign a huge number of documents, and if you have children, this process will drag on for many months. This means that now the law is aimed only at preserving the family. Therefore, when spouses present mutual claims to each other, the law suggests that everything be considered and, if possible, reconcile.
