Pearl - How Bastards, Dowries, and the Church Shaped the West w⧸ @thisisshah

00:00:00.240 if you look up what organization on the planet owns the most property

00:00:06.880 guess guess what do you think it is i'm thinking bill gates it's the catholic church oh no oh

00:00:12.800 that's i should have been able to guess the catholic church owns the most property because

00:00:17.440 what would happen is you'd end up with people who didn't have heirs to pass it on to and they would

00:00:21.440 gift it to the church so when they outlawed adoption so you couldn't adopt somebody to get

00:00:26.240 to pass it on you couldn't have a concubine um about 20 of people wouldn't have kids

00:00:33.120 at in europe and another 20 would only have daughters so that particular daughter if if 0.77

00:00:39.360 she didn't get married um she would have a really nice dowry because she's inheriting everything 1.00

00:00:44.080 it's not just her portion but anyway so it's it's an interesting history um and and you know so you

00:00:51.120 can kind of see how that forms Europe and what's different about it but the part to where we get to

00:00:56.880 today is nowadays you'll see all kinds of strange things you'll have a kid out of wedlock and then

00:01:01.440 as soon as the child support agency makes that kid a legal child now this kid has claims to

00:01:06.800 certain things that's why sometimes when some historically that would never happen no because

00:01:11.760 it would just be the parents yeah yeah well that this kid would be a bastard probably pretty hard

00:01:16.880 to prove that, first of all.

Pearl - June 05, 2025