Family units are "meaningless" in this society.
There is no telling what position in life your children are going to have when they reach adulthood, but they are going to suddenly acquire new relationships, debts and inheritances after their initiation. Your one-time sister is never as closely bonded to you as your many-times wife. You don't have to worry about which of your children is best for inheriting your positions and status because YOU are the inheritor.
In fact, there will be new spiritual relationships that are discovered at adulthood. Your flame-brother/sister is always born nearby (although you tend to be of different ages through most lives). Your flame-wife/husband is reunited with you as your eternal lover.
Or, there are two webs of relationships. One spiritual and one temporal. You have a flame-wife and you also have a wife. You are raised by your father and mother, who you maintain a relationship with through this life; because someone has to care for them when they are old. But you also have an older flame-brother who aids in raising you and a younger flame-sister that you help raise. Uncles, aunts and cousins are no longer of importance (too many relationships to track), but your spiritual family fill those gaps in society.
(I would have to say, this fact that people die at different ages and are reborn at different ages, presumably, makes this problematic.)
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