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Updated: May 23, 2025
But, as long as marriage is matrilocal that is to say, allows the wife to remain at home amongst male defenders of her own clan she can safely lord it over her stranger husband; and there can scarcely be adultery on her part, since she can always obtain divorce by simply saying, Go!
When the matrilineal, matrilocal and matripotestal conditions are found together, we have mother-right at its fullest and strongest.
In such a case the marriage is called matrilocal; otherwise it is patrilocal. Again, when the matrilocal type of marriage prevails, as likewise often when it does not, the wife and her people, rather than the father and his people, exercise supreme authority over the children. This is known as the matripotestal, as contrasted with the patripotestal, type of family.
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