In major part of the world, we have a patrilocal culture as of now. That is, every girl, after their marriage, is sent away to live with the husband’s family. But given that most of the care jobs (caring for the family members) are done by women, it’s only logical that women get to stay with their own parents and take care of them instead of husbands' parents, and their husbands' sisters can take care of their husbands parents. The current system, the patrilocality, is completely illogical and heartless. We have so much domestic abuse cases, negligence, marital rape cases. If we had matrilocality everywhere (and that means men from these cultures also get to live with their parents, and visit wives' places when they want); it would have significantly reduced these types of social crimes. After all, it’s the women’s own parents, who care for them the most, and it’s the couples' own daughters (and sons, we should make a society without gender-roles, boys can also take care of their parents), that care for the couples the most.
Then comes the question of inheritance. Now, we all know women are the ones giving birth to the babies and taking care of the babies and children the most. Hopefully, a bright culture of accepting the men outside the traditional role of only “protectors and providers” as normal and more attractive is coming forward (actually, there were always some men, who knew much better than fitting into society’s gender boxes, and took “womanly” care of the elderly people and kids) but there are so much cultural and social barriers, and there is the huge barrier of our capitalistic and gender-role based society too, (someone’s gotta earn for the family when the women are pregnant, or when the babies are little and need their mommies, although this gendered idea of babies' need is in many ways a societal construct, but as long as people aren’t above these gender role ideas and and attach their egos with these, we don’t want to compromise with the babies' support and safety, do we?) that it forces a woman to depend on a man, the father of the baby, to make sure her and her babies' livelihood is taken care of. That system is marriage, and this system is too illogical to be considered as a valid system. Depending on a man financially and for social status and validity, comes with its own demands, women have to take care of the men’s households, the men’s parents and siblings, their sexual demands, to name a few. This transaction system is too stereotypical, and women don’t get a chance to look after their own parents and siblings, or tend to their own dreams and careers, living in this thoughtless system. This is why, we need matriliny, inheritance should pass down from mothers to daughters. Men are much more free to pursue paid jobs outside, when kids are small, and men don’t become pregnant. But if women have access to family money from the mother’s side, if family inheritance passes down the women’s line, women won’t have to necessarily marry a man just to arrange for her and the kids' livelihood. Girls and women won’t be slut-shamed or shamed as gold diggers and oportunists if they become pregnant, society won’t harass women for becoming pregnant without a social validation certificate called marriage, because women will have money then, to feed their own babies. Women won’t have to beg the fathers of the babies to marry them and share a tiny portion from their patrilineal inheritance to take care of their livelihood. People won’t be able to run sex-trafficking rackets by falsely promising marriage to women, because women won’t need money outside, they will have their inheritance and then their own jobs/businesses. Women will be well supported by their own family to invest their time and energy in the paid jobs/businesses too, because no men/men’s families will be able to ask women to leave their own dreams/careers and instead concentrate on the men’s family and household because the women apparently should be obliged to do that in exchange of having their basic necessities being taken cared of.
To get a better insight about matrilocal and matrilineal cultures, read this amazing article by Elle Beau ❇︎: https://medium.com/inside-of-elle-beau/rape-is-unknown-in-some-cultures-7c8629c4fa0f