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Fun fact: The reason cousin marriages are such a taboo in the West is because it was engineered by the Catholic Church so that the Church could strip people of their wealth and power You see, back then marriages were often used to keep land, wealth, and power consolidated within clan lines. The Catholic Church wanted to prevent these alliances because traditional kinship networks were the primary rival to its authority. So what did they do? They began strictly regulating who could marry whom this around 600 AD, if I remember correctly Regulations included prohibitions against marrying in-laws and godparents. For example, a widow was no longer permitted to marry her deceased husband's brother, a previously common practice that kept support systems intact. By the 11th century, these laws became so strict that they prohibited marriage between even sixth cousins, people who share only about 0.01% of their DNA Families could no longer rely on living within extended ancestral compounds, because the Church would confiscate them like im not kidding. Under traditional law, when a man died childless, his estate stayed within the lineage through levirate marriage or adoption. But the Church banned both practices, alongside concubinage and cousin marriage. So, by blocking these traditional legal loopholes, families without direct male heirs were stripped of their ability to keep land inside the clan line. If a landowner died without a valid direct heir under church law, the land could not be transferred to a cousin or adopted kin; instead, estates frequently defaulted to the Church through forced escheatment or deathbed bequests made to secure salvation. These, in turn, caused a ripple effect in how marriage worked. The clan could not rely on internal endogamy (marrying within the line) to preserve wealth and pass down property, people were forced to establish independent, self-contained households upon marriage, giving birth to the nuclear family setup and fostering unprecedented levels of geographic mobility and individual autonomy. which in turn caused another ripple effect on how kids are raised today so instead of a household being embedded within a broad network of grandparents, cousins, uncles, aunts, neighbours, dependants, servants, apprentices, and relatives, the emerging family increasingly centred upon parents and their immediate children. The “village” that shared childcare, economic risk, elder care, and domestic responsibility gradually weakened. As a result, the burden of raising kids, which was once distributed across an entire clan, was now concentrated on the shoulders of just two adults. Former lecturer and anthroplogist @Cambridge_Uni Jack Goody has written about this exnetsively in his book The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe. if you want to read more about this (https://t.co/oqMhvWoXV3)

afro_hamza's tweet photo. Fun fact: The reason cousin marriages are such a taboo in the West is because it was engineered by the Catholic Church so that the Church could strip people of their wealth and power

You see, back then marriages were often used to
keep land, wealth, and power consolidated within clan lines. The Catholic Church wanted to prevent these alliances because traditional kinship networks were the primary rival to its authority. So what did they do?

They began strictly regulating who could marry whom this around 600 AD, if I remember correctly Regulations included prohibitions against marrying in-laws and godparents. For example, a widow was no longer permitted to marry her deceased husband's brother, a previously common practice that kept support systems intact. By the 11th century, these laws became so strict that they prohibited marriage between even sixth cousins, people who share only about 0.01% of their DNA

Families could no longer rely on living within extended ancestral compounds, because the Church would confiscate them like im not kidding. Under traditional law, when a man died childless, his estate stayed within the lineage through levirate marriage or adoption. But the Church banned both practices, alongside concubinage and cousin marriage. So, by blocking these traditional legal loopholes, families without direct male heirs were stripped of their ability to keep land inside the clan line. If a landowner died without a valid direct heir under church law, the land could not be transferred to a cousin or adopted kin; instead, estates frequently defaulted to the Church through forced escheatment or deathbed bequests made to secure salvation.

These, in turn, caused a ripple effect in how marriage worked. The clan could not rely on internal endogamy (marrying within the line) to preserve wealth and pass down property, people
were forced to establish independent, self-contained households upon marriage, giving birth to the nuclear family setup and fostering unprecedented levels of geographic mobility and individual autonomy. which in turn caused another ripple effect on how kids are raised today
so instead of a household being embedded within a broad network of grandparents, cousins, uncles, aunts, neighbours, dependants, servants, apprentices, and relatives, the emerging family increasingly centred upon parents and their immediate children.
The “village” that shared childcare, economic risk, elder care, and domestic responsibility gradually weakened.
As a result, the burden of raising kids, which was once distributed across an entire clan, was now concentrated on the shoulders of just two adults.

Former lecturer and anthroplogist @Cambridge_Uni Jack Goody has written about this exnetsively in his book The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe. if you want to read more about this
(https://t.co/oqMhvWoXV3)

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