Pearl - June 01, 2025


Modern Love Killed the Dowry w⧸ @thisisshah


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In this episode we talk about how the dowry fell out of favor in the 19th century and how it was replaced by the modern dowry. We also talk about the reasons why this happened and why it happened.

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00:00:00.080 time period like when did the dowry start the dowry started around the time agriculture changed
00:00:06.240 from uh light tools like the hoe and digging stick to heavier tools like the plow uh as far 0.91
00:00:12.320 as the time period of what i'm speaking of specifically that's like right 1970s cyprus
00:00:17.840 i'm talking about right now now there's a good paper i had a discussion with paul elam and we
00:00:21.760 went over that paper and they're talking about uh so as recently as the 70s yeah wow yeah i figured
00:00:28.560 it would be like 100 years ago plus yeah i mean there's a lot of stuff from around then different
00:00:34.400 places um sort of abandoned it at different times i think england and us are probably earlier they're
00:00:41.200 one of the first places to get industrialized uh you see kind of romantic love take over as
00:00:48.000 you know when modernization comes in uh it tends to have a lot more job opportunity that's kind of
00:00:53.920 different from what people are usually doing so people can say screw you mom and dad i'm going
00:00:58.000 to live in an apartment with my girlfriend and we love each other and you know it it just ended up
00:01:02.640 that way and then they're more interested in college and things like that but so in the u.s
00:01:07.440 was that like the 20s then because isn't that when it was like the 1880s to the 20s i think
00:01:14.080 and i think i think in the u.s i don't remember exactly but i think that would have been sometime
00:01:20.880 in the 1800s yeah the u.s was kind of known for abandoning these things a little bit earlier
00:01:26.560 and the reason is is because you know even in a lot of europe divorce didn't exist
00:01:31.280 um it was annulments basically all throughout christendom basically and then after you get your
00:01:37.520 revolutions there it changes but the us was one of the first places right after the american
00:01:41.840 revolution to start saying okay we can do divorce now and then they created their system of at-fault
00:01:47.440 divorce um but you know it's in some places it was still happening but england and there it started
00:01:56.000 to fall out of favor, especially as they got rid of, I think that's called Coventry.
00:02:03.540 No, not Coventry.
00:02:04.560 I can't remember the word for it, where the husband manages the finances and the woman 0.99
00:02:08.660 can't take debt.
00:02:10.240 So they start getting rid of that, I think late 1800s, and it falls out of favor.