Do you think Jewish matrilineal descent laws are made to increase the number of Jews?

Question

Society views the father's heritage/religion as the dominant one.
So for the most part if a Jew male marries a non-Jew, the kids will be raised as Jews and identify as Jews (because it's hard not to with a last name like Goldstein)
So by instituting the matrilineal descent laws, if a non-Jew male marries a Jew, she feels that it's her duty to raise the kids as Jews and the kids knowing this information will identify as Jews.
So in the end, whatever the outcome, a union between a Jew and a non-Jew ends in Jewish kids.

Answer 1

THE OBVIOUS ANSWER IS YES

Answer 2

Yes. Don't forget how old the culture is.

Constrast that to Iran's current Muslim Patriarchy, which helps to delete its power base. Men who marry Hindu, Afghan or Women of other nationalities and have children are by default considered Iranians. However, for a woman who marries a foreign man, her children are considered foreigners under Iranian law. This causes many women, and inevitably many families to leave the country so that they may raise their families, particularly those along the border or for folks living in the country on visas who happen to marry nationals.

Answer 3

Interesting line of thought, but not quite relevant in this case.
the matrilineal descent recognizes a basic factor that most other societies seem to have ignored. It isn't hard to tell who is a child's mother, but until the advent of DNA testing, there was no way to establish with any certainty, who was the father of the child.

Answer 4

No, a Jewish man's kids won't be recognized as Jews.

Answer 5

Same rule goes for Roman Catholics, too.

Answer 6

of course! thats what they want!
more jews!

Answer 7

ok