1944-1945: (Lescot’s True Agenda — Land Control Through Marriage and Legitimacy — the Regulation on Legitimacy Being Anchored in Women’s Reproduction Sexual …

1944-1945: (Lescot’s True Agenda — Land Control Through Marriage and Legitimacy — the Regulation on Legitimacy Being Anchored in Women’s Reproduction Sexual Practices and Labor to the Land, Lescot Anticipating That a Repeal on the Marriage Tax and the Legitimacy Laws Would Lead to More Legal Marriages and More Legitimate Children Who Could Inherit Land — If Children Were Able to Inherit the Family Land When Their Legally Recognized Fathers Died They Would Stay in the Rural Districts and Not Migrate to the Urban Centers, Cloaked Under the Discourse of Morality Lescot Using the Law to Control Sexual Partnering Decisions and Family Networks for the Purposes of Local and International Markets): The regulation on legitimacy was anchored in women’s reproduction, sexual practices, and labor to the land. Lescot anticipated that a repeal on the marriage tax and the legitimacy laws would lead to more legal marriages and more legitimate children who could inherit land. If, he imagined, children were able to inherit the family land when their legally recognized fathers died, they would, in turn, stay in the rural districts and not migrate to the urban centers. Cloaked under the discourse of morality, Lescot used the law to control sexual partnering decisions and family networks for the purposes of local and international markets — the legislation was not family policy but land policy, not morality but logistics, the president engineering a demographic dam to keep the rural labor force in place by welding their children’s inheritance to their fathers’ graves.