Family, Incest and Law
Family Values in Ancient Times:
Many people of the present make some very grave and disturbing
assumptions about prior unethical behaviour by humans. My
theories may be biased and overly appreciative of a time before
Empire and there is less data due to the destructive power of
Empire and the hegemony to go on. However, that data is more
pure and less likely to have been promoted or propagandized for
the interests of power-mongers. Top scholars and those who are
regarded as great academics still debate whether women ever had
equal rights and some state there never were matriarchal
societies of great note. It would be a surprise for me if there
were not many different approaches used in various cultures and
millennia before the Ice Age we just experienced and thereafter,
leading up to what we call history. Much of history today has
all the markings of hegemony akin to the Middle Ages according
to John Ralston Saul who says it