Gramps told me that we sometimes have to suffer through generation gaps when he was explaining to me why we were doing things the way we were and why real relatives always had to be more important than public family. I wondered, if this stuff is so great why are we short staffed at the moment, and thats when he began a very long recitation of our family history and world history and the history of nations. At the time I was going through my birthing years, and the people who were publicly my family were breeding me for money and selling the children. Gramps had to explain to me why those children weren't important to me though my hormones were giving me hell. Since those children have grown up I understand better know, and comparing them to the ones I have with my husband I can see a huge difference.
We lived in a "free country" while we talked about this, I was in school, so it was not possible to explain things in terms of free and slave relationships, and even if it had been it would have been a difficult discussion since people at my end of the family only normally deal with special status slaves, and these are usually family descended from people of lower status we chose to make children with and they are never the results of unions forced on us by strangers.
A lot of times I would ask why we needed to do all this work and why we couldn't leave people alone to do what they wanted and isn't it mean and stuff like that. Since then I have been at the mercy of so many other people I know the answers to all those questions, I know what a lot of other people would do in the same situation and even how hard they would work to have the power to do things beyond their grasp for no reason at all. But its a good experience to have. When we have our act totally together we dont self replicate, though we do make a nice array of people of various lower ranks (lower than us much higher than you).
