Chapter 12: Maturity and Old Age
Summary:
In the sexual relation alone are a married couple treated as one. Pregnant women are treated with special taboo, and are not allowed to do almost any activity alone because only "only things which are wrong are done in solitude and any wrong deed committed by the expectant mother will injure the child." A widowed matai must cast aside his title and pretend to be a youth if he wishes to remarry.
Discussion:
I thought the part about the pregnant women was the most interesting thing in the chapter. I think it seems silly to not allow pregnant women to do anything on their own, but at the same time our culture has a tendency to do some of the same things, even if they're not for the same reasons.
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