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 ===== Courtship =====
-//[[takma:behaviors#Courtship|Courtship]]//, here, refers to the process of initiating a relationship, regardless of its length or level of formality.
+//[[takma:behaviors#courtship|Courtship]]//, here, refers to the process of initiating a relationship, regardless of its length or level of formality.
 The eliciting of favor through gifts remains a central part of the courtship process for both the [[takma:|takmar]] and the [[xtauh:|xtauh]]. Although the giving of gifts by males to females is nearly universal, there are a smaller number of societies in which the reverse is also allowed by custom, most commonly when the female is particularly impressed by the male. (There are few, if any, societies where there is only a tradition of females giving gifts to males.) It is generally considered that, for either sex, eligibility to engage in the courtship process begins once an individual leaves their mother's home.
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 In short, most cultures simply have no publicly acknowledged concept of biological paternity, and the rights and responsibilities of fatherhood are usually conveyed through marriage or some kind of equivalent instead (see above). This can lead to situations in which - if a mother is divorced or widowed, or has children entirely outside of marriage - her children have no father at all.
-As a side note: in the [[avishraa:community:citadel|Citadel]], the situation is somewhat different because of the presence of lifegivers, who among other things can identify a child's genetic relationship to a parent. As a result, the mechanisms of reproduction are much more widely understood and acknowledged there, and while the topic is still very private, a wife and her husbands will usually find it politic to work out an understanding among themselves about how to handle the matter.
+As a side note: in the [[geopolitical:Citadel:]], the situation is somewhat different because of the presence of lifegivers, who among other things can identify a child's genetic relationship to a parent. As a result, the mechanisms of reproduction are much more widely understood and acknowledged there, and while the topic is still very private, a wife and her husbands will usually find it politic to work out an understanding among themselves about how to handle the matter.
-Non-Citadel cultures almost always consider the revelation of paternity to be a perversion, but this does not stop it from happening, if a female trusts a male enough. Even as with humans, the idea of a perversion will always prove fascinating to at least some people, if indeed not arousing. (There is almost certainly erotic takma literature discreetly floating around somewhere based on this very topic - in [[avishraa:community:ǣdyihozh:start|Aedyihozh]], if nowhere else, because Aedyihozh is exactly the kind of place where someone could get away with that.)
+Non-Citadel cultures almost always consider the revelation of paternity to be a perversion, but this does not stop it from happening, if a female trusts a male enough. Even as with humans, the idea of a perversion will always prove fascinating to at least some people, if indeed not arousing. (There is almost certainly erotic takma literature discreetly floating around somewhere based on this very topic - in [[geopolitical:Aedyihozh:]], if nowhere else, because Aedyihozh is exactly the kind of place where someone could get away with that.)