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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Baron Opal" data-source="post: 1582120" data-attributes="member: 10433">IIRC, there have been / are currently cultures who practice group marriage and any resulting children consider all the adults "parents". Groups range from 3-8.Hrm, iritating I remember some of the details but not the name of the culture that I read about. African, perhaps? Incan? Can't remember.Another issue that comes up is who takes care of the children? Are their guilds of wet nurses and caretakers who raise the children according to cultural norms? What if someone doesn't want to share their mate?Inheritance is an issue too. How do you prove who is your parent? Are goods just donated to the state or is there some more formal ritual to determine who gets your stuff when you die? One of the drives that cause people to have children is a desire for immortality. That some part of them lives on after they die, even if it is only a memory of that person. Is that drive absent in these people or is it channeled into other things?People have a strong need to "belong". Family is a big part of that need. The approval of social groups and peer opinion will become even more important in this setting.Baron Opal</blockquote>