BTW, I think that this topic belongs on the Glorantha Digest more than the HQ group, as these questions have less to do with playing the game than they do living as a Heortling. This is especially true for the question of how Heortling "became" patrilineal.
I expect that the "worthies" oversee matters to make sure that no one screws up a simple divorce and turns it into a blood feud and/or kinslaughter. Someone sits in during the negotiations, and otherwise ignores the process unless it starts to go Jerry Springer. In fact, I would expect that they would be sitting at another table, and quietly discuss something else with other "worthies" while the involved bloodlines handle the real work, and only pay attention to the current problem if the volume gets much higher or much quieter.
> This in fact may well
> be why few mothers take their children back to their birth
> clan - that clan won't feel any obligation towards the children
> and may well look to get the woman married off again quickly.
Not to mention that the mother may not feel very maternally towards the brats the the disgusting soon-to-be-ex-husband forced upon her (to put it into emotional terms appropriate to this case). Remember, Medea is not just a RW myth, but a type of a (thankfully small) portion of mothers.
This would be especially true if some or all of the children bonded more with the father than the mother (most sons, I expect, and some future Vingans).
> Then there are market days and other festivals where clans get
> together. I think extended visits by the children are unusual,
> something only done for a reason.
Extended visits could also occur in cases where the two bloodlines, clans, or tribes wished to keep the social bonds of the marriage, even after the two people involved proved to be unable to do so, for what ever reason (eg: wife joins Humakt, husband dedicates to Nandan, or becomes a Storm Lord, etc.).
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