What attributes can fathers pass on through their spirit?
In this world, humans have a strange way of reproducing. When partners decide to conceive, A female must be inseminated at specified intervals by a male in order to pass on her genes. However, males don't pass on their genes, but bits of their spirit. When enough of these pieces of spirit is collected, it coalesces into a soul. Spirit can come from a single male or various ones with no connection to each other. Through this method, a developing child is slowly "built" with the material of one man, or the makeup of several different men. Because of this, most children will have many different fathers.
Patrilineality is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. This is normally how position and inheritance is decided in history. It generally involves the inheritance of property, rights, names or titles by persons related through male kin. In this case, the genes of the "fathers" are not passed on. Therefore, society falls along matrilineal lines, as it is simpler to identify the single parent.
What can various biological fathers contribute through their spirit to add to their childs' makeup to make patrilineal lines relevant?
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