Note 218 — Chapter XV · ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE FAMILY TENDENCIES—HATE ASPECTS
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It is of course true that with a system of group marriage the opportunities for sexual relations among young people may sometimes be no greater than under monogamy, since all the available women may be regarded as belonging exclusively to a certain class of men—usually those who have attained a certain age. The hatred and jealousy aroused in the young men towards their elders may in such cases be equal in intensity to those felt under monogamic conditions, but the fact remains that this hatred is no longer intimately connected with the family (at any rate as we understand that institution at the present day).