[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=outtamojo]
Hard to take care of yourself when an 8 pound baby splits you in two and you’ve got blood and afterbirth hangin’ all over you – hence the biological drive to look for someone to take care of you.[/quote]
I can go with this…. but there’s a price to everything in life. If someone takes care of you, then you need to give something in exchange. If the boss pays you, then you have to submit to the boss and do as told.
The baby belongs to both parents, so the baby itself cannot be part of the bargain.[/quote]
The baby belongs to the mother by default. The father wouldn’t even know that a pregnancy resulted from his sex act unless the woman told him. He would have no rights to the child without the legal system (created by men, and based largely on religious doctrine that establishes a man’s position over his wife) that gives him rights to the child, and a legal/social structure — marriage — that reinforces this arrangement and gives women a reason to share the child with the father. She gives him the ability to pass on his genes, giving his family line the potential for “eternal life,” and he returns the favor by taking care of the wife for life.
Of course, it’s a business deal, and both spouses have other ways to give and take, but that’s the basic premise.
