I've heard Kibbutzes had a problem where the communally raised children wouldn't marry each other because they'd been raised so closely together as children. Why wasn't this a problem for villages historically? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

I've heard Kibbutzes had a problem where the communally raised children wouldn't marry each other because they'd been raised so closely together as children. Why wasn't this a problem for villages historically?

by Seswatha

Georgy_K_Zhukov

This is called the Westermarck effect. To get answers about it though, you would probably have better luck in /r/AskAnthropology or /r/AskSocialScience.