Thanks for the input GOPJ. I'm not sure, in some families, that they can even trust other family members.
You're right. An unintended consequence is a forced need to have many children. Must be a strange world when the only people who can be trusted are brothers and the people your wives give birth to - and then only some of them... The folks over there wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the oil money - a "family" can buy the means of destruction. Iran's equally paranoid, but they have vestiges of a real culture - a double edged sword - they have promise and they're a real threat.