Pearl - Modern Love Killed the Dowry w⧸ @thisisshah

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.

Pearl - June 01, 2025