Pearl - May 31, 2025
Illegitimate Kids, DNA Bombshells & Why Men Can’t Win Family Court Anymore w⧸ @thisisshah
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the history of child support in the 19th and 20th century. We discuss the difference between illegitimate children and legitimate ones, and what it was like to have a child out of wedlock in the 1800s.
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well it's interesting too because with so many single mothers coming up like the chance of
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this dowry happening is like negative a thousand no like um and even it's interesting too because
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when i was thinking about the class difference between for elon musk and ashley yeah history
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that never would have happened ever yeah no no i mean and if it you know if it did happen at least
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in the more recent history that would be an illegitimate child um and they're yeah what
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would happen to them so back then it was it was really different like nowadays we do this thing
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where we take a child who's illegitimate and we make them legitimate which means they have rights
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of inheritance and all this stuff in probate court back then an illegitimate child you're not going to
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legally inherit no no way yeah so you have this illegitimate child uh it doesn't count and the
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you know the church was strict on this too there was no genetic tests back then either but let me
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tell you something adoption wasn't even legal until relatively recently no the church outlawed adoption
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and it for from ancient rome from whenever christianity became the sort of state religion
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all the way up and through through like 1850 or so adoption was was illegal so they were very specific
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about you know what marriages can happen so what would happen to the kids whose parents died uh
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well they probably end up in some kind of orphanage or you know um but so it's it's interesting when
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you look at it because what happens is is you know back then like let's say you married someone and she
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was barren or she couldn't have kids you couldn't really know that before before you know they would
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maybe marry a concubine who's not a wife but she can provide a child and he can be made he or she could be made
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legitimate the church outlawed concubinage when uh they became monogamous so it almost helped the
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infertile woman because yeah like in a way because she still gets to stay married instead of getting
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divorced if you look up what organization on the planet owns the most property guess guess what do
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you think it is i'm thinking bill gates it's the catholic church oh no oh that's i should have been
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able to get the catholic church owns the most property because what would happen is you'd end
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up with people who didn't have heirs to pass it on to and they would gift it to the church
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so when they outlawed adoption so you couldn't adopt somebody to get to pass it on you couldn't
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have a concubine um about 20 of people wouldn't have kids at in europe and another 20 would only have
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daughters so that particular daughter if if she didn't get married um she would have a really nice
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dowry because she's inheriting everything it's not just her portion but anyway so it's it's an
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interesting history um and and you know so you can kind of see how that forms europe and what's
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different about it but the part to where we get to today is nowadays you'll see all kinds of strange
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things you'll have a kid out of wedlock and then as soon as the child support agency makes that kid a
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legal child now this kid has claims to certain things that's why sometimes when some historically that
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would never happen no no because it would just be the parents yeah yeah well that this kid would be
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a bastard it'd probably be pretty hard to prove that first of all i mean even but you know genetic
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tests came in the 90s uh relatively that's where you got maury povich you got the show prior to that
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you had blood tests and paternity cases were like some of the hardest cases for our attorneys at the
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child support agency nowadays they're easy because dna tests make it so easy um but back then you'd have
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to have these whole paternity trials and you know you'd have to bring in witnesses and i saw them
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and they were behind the barn or whatever happened you know what i mean so then you can place them
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there um so then nowadays i look at genetic tests as like a nuclear bomb in this space basically because
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once that happened it meant it doesn't matter what the relationship with the child is this guy's the
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father we could immediately get money from him and this is why child support and custody are separate
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also by the way i'm curious do you know anything about genie like when that did come out if they
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found it like has this cheating been going on for longer than we thought yeah um because i saw someone
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on twitter like replied to one of my tweets and they said that they looked at gene genealogical records
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and found that there was a lot more cheating from like neighbors and other people in town that we know in
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history now this is a random person on twitter so i don't know but i was just curious you seem to have
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read a lot about this talk yeah i don't you know i don't know if you can point to any specific numbers
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on there um i think there was definitely a lot of that because once again you couldn't prove it so
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you know and and typically if communities were more homogenized and you know your neighbor didn't look
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that different from you it might be harder to tell um so it probably did happen i mean if you go off
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numbers now i mean i think they say out of genetic tests that they actually do which means that there
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was a suspicion of cheating already about a 30 of them or something end up not being it but you know
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there were some indications where i think people might have been suspicious if there's dna tests
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it would have been different no i meant now if there's mandatory dna tests out there they should
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do that all right they yeah yeah but they can't i'll tell you this they can't because like like
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let's say 20 of the population is raising kids that aren't and they find out and they feel like
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what is that going to do to society yeah i don't think the government will ever let it happen i'll
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tell you this there's less incentive for the government to do it because from the government's
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point of view they want to see children born that have legal parents that are responsible for them
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if the government probably does not want to pay to find out that we don't know who the dad is and
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then you know have more kids on welfare or foster care i will say there has been suspicions in
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history i mean i think it's called lord mansfield's rule this was in late 1700s i can't remember
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exactly but it was in england and they made it to where you couldn't challenge paternity of the kid
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all the way back then so it kind of leads me to believe that there must have been people who
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were like that's not my kid and they were trying to get this figured out until they were like no
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you know stop bringing this up basically so there's always suspicion it's possible yeah because i just
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wonder do you think any laws will change in the future i find it i'll just give you my shot so you
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can tell me if you agree or disagree but i find it very improbable because there's just so much money
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in this machine so with all the lawyers that are involved all the policy makers all of the people
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benefit social security i don't see any incentive for it to change um do you have more hope than me
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uh you know i'm definitely guilty of being a you know how you got the just lift bros i was a just
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change the laws bro kind of guy but you know i've i've spent a lot of time talking with a lot of folks
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in the space especially with folks like paul elam peter wright and they've kind of watched these
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sort of men's rights initiatives happen in you know over a long period of time just in their lives but
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also historically they've done the research and they've kind of seen that if the culture is not
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caught up with it it tends to not happen um so you know i don't i don't see any big push for loss to
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change unfortunately i think with more men avoiding marriage you know the only time they they start to ask
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questions is when it seems like they're losing out like oh the birth rate's down or correct this is
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this or men's checking out yeah and it's like what can we do and they will do everything they can to
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avoid giving men stuff i hate to say it but what they'll do is like oh well how can we make ivf easier
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for women yeah or something like that um or let's give women a tax break or something and the men get
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nothing paying us to have kids yeah i think i saw that recently so you think five grand is going to
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help no yeah and it's you know there's it's kind of a strange thing because i mean we know kids have
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a tougher time or at least the worst prognosis if the father's not in their life and you know there's
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a lot of people selling marriage and if they want to do that they need to make marriage a deal that at
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least works for both parties at least during at-fault divorce okay there were no dowries back then but at
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least in at fault you had some protection i mean if you know if you cheated on her as the guy
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you'd you'd get screwed over and you know rightfully so you were you caused the injury in this you were
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at fault if she cheated on you um you'd be the injured party and the way that the assets of the
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marriage get divvied up would be different you know so we don't even have that now we have no fault
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you know and i know there's an argument we can't even go back to at fault you know that's that's
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unrealistic there'd be so many false abuse cases it's just would be a waste of money anyways probably
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but you know that was at least still in my opinion a little bit better now we're at no fault this is
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why i i like to study things like the dowry and things is because we're in this environment that's
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so hostile legally um and it's like if i was going to take the monogamy deal would at least make sense
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and this is what our ancestors did as most of you know i have been fighting on the front lines of the
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