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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, I can't believe that I remember this, but when I was in college, I took a women's studies course (natch) where the professor told us that in pagan Britain, women would pick an attractive man at Beltane, take him out in the fields, enjoy his company for the night, and wear the green stains on their clothing as a source of pride the next day. It was a fertility ritual for the benefit of the farmers and if a baby arrived the following spring, more's the better. No one worried about the paternity of the child.
I think she should look at this child as a Beltane baby and move on.[/quote]

OK, let's all follow the pagans.  I don't think our society is structured to handle so many babies with no fathers to help support them, clearly.[/quote]

Clearky you are certainly take this thread personal. PP wasn't suggesting this should become a new trend.[/quote]

Then what was PP suggesting by posting this?  that stuff like this happened way back when before they had birth control?   I saw a program once where in[b] some culture in Asia there are no marriages, and the man goes to a woman's house at night to do the deed, then leave before the morning[/b].  And so?  [/quote]

Nice! No dirty socks to pick up.[/quote]

But would you really want to raise that baby by yourself?  I sure as heck wouldn't.  But, yea, I get the no picking up the sock thing.[/quote]

I would venture to guess that back in pagan Britain that it really was a "village" raising children, beltane babies were rare and special and it was a different time and culture. So hard to compare to today don't you think?[/quote]

The "Beltane Baby" culture is alive and well in a modern form in Iceland. Two thirds of babies are born out of wedlock.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-independent-mothers-of-iceland[/quote]

That's kinda cool. Much healthier than divorces and custody battles.[/quote]

Yes because those are the two choices when it comes to raising children.[/quote]

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