Everyone Your Age Is Your Cousin | How Hutterites Marry

There are ninety-two people under thirty on a Hutterite colony, and a young man is expected to find a wife among them. Every girl his age is his cousin. He cannot date outside the faith, and he cannot leave to look. My name is Andreas Wurz. I keep the books on a colony in southern Alberta. In this video: why "everyone is your cousin" is not an exaggeration but a measured number, how a courtship actually happens across 544 colonies and a thousand kilometres of prairie, what a Hutterite wedding is without a ring or a white dress or a bill — and the honest answer to why almost nobody here gets divorced. That last one is not the answer you are expecting. SOURCES · Hutterites.org — courtship, marriage, the Hulba, post-marriage residence · Published research on the Hutterite founder population — average kinship coefficient ≈0.034, first-cousin marriage prohibited, 30+ autosomal recessive disorders identified · Chabad.org — "13 Facts About Shidduch Dating" · Hutterite population census 2024 — 58,392 people, 544 colonies If you find an error, put it in the comments and I will pin the correction. I would rather be right than look right.