Pearl - How Illegitimate Children Changed Inheritance Forever w⧸ @thisisshah

00:00:00.000 Well, it's interesting too, because with so many single mothers coming up, like the chance of 0.99

00:00:04.880 this dowry happening is like negative a thousand. No, you know, if it did happen, at least in the

00:00:10.100 more recent history, that would be an illegitimate child. Yeah, what would happen to them? So back

00:00:15.860 then it was, it was really different. Like nowadays we do this thing where we take a child

00:00:21.060 who's illegitimate and we make them legitimate, which means they have rights of inheritance and

00:00:25.120 all this stuff in probate court back then an illegitimate child you're not going to legally

00:00:30.060 inherit no no way yeah so you have this illegitimate child uh it doesn't count and the

00:00:35.600 you know the church was strict on this too there was no genetic tests back then either but

00:00:39.780 let me tell you something adoption wasn't even legal until relatively recently no way the church

00:00:45.240 outlawed adoption and it for from ancient rome from whenever christianity became the sort of

00:00:51.740 state religion all the way up and through through like 1850 or so adoption was was illegal they were

00:00:58.040 very specific about you know what marriages can happen so what would happen to the kids whose 1.00

00:01:03.020 parents died uh well they probably end up in some kind of orphanage or you know um but so it's it's

00:01:11.460 interesting when you look at it because what happens is is you know back then like let's say

00:01:14.960 you married someone and she was barren or she couldn't have kids you couldn't really know that 1.00

00:01:18.980 before before you know they would maybe marry a concubine who's not a wife but she can provide a 1.00

00:01:25.540 child and he can be made he or she could be made legitimate the church outlawed concubinage when

00:01:31.040 they became monogamous so it almost helped the infertile woman because yeah like in a way because 1.00

00:01:38.080 she still gets to stay married instead of getting divorced if you look up what organization on the

00:01:43.960 planet owns the most property. Guess what do you think it is? I'm thinking Bill Gates. It's the

00:01:51.700 Catholic Church. Oh no. Oh, that's... I should have been able to guess. The Catholic Church owns the 0.97

00:01:56.360 most property because what would happen is you'd end up with people who didn't have heirs to pass

00:02:01.440 it on to and they would gift it to the church. So when they outlawed adoption, so you couldn't

00:02:05.740 adopt somebody to get to pass it on, you couldn't have a concubine, about 20% of people wouldn't

00:02:13.020 have kids in Europe, and another 20% would only have daughters. So that particular daughter, if

00:02:19.300 she didn't get married, she would have a really nice dowry because she's inheriting everything. 1.00

00:02:24.740 It's not just her portion. But anyway, so it's an interesting history. And, you know, so you can

00:02:31.860 kind of see how that forms Europe and what's different about it. But the part to where we get

00:02:37.240 to today is nowadays you'll see all kinds of strange things. You'll have a kid out of wedlock,

00:02:41.320 and then as soon as the child support agency makes that kid a legal child now

00:02:45.680 this kid has claims to certain things that's why sometimes when some historically

00:02:50.320 that would never happen no no it would just be the parent yeah well that this

00:02:54.880 kid would be a bastard probably pretty hard to prove that first of all

Pearl - June 04, 2025