MATRIPOTESTAL
It is a form of family in which authority is centered on the wife or mother. The matripotestal family system implies the rule of the family by the mother, not by the father. Women are entitled to perform religious rites, and the husband lives in the house of the wife. It is also called a mother-right family or maternal family, under which the status, name and sometimes inheritance are transmitted through the female line. Such a family is now found among the Khasi and Garo tribes of Assam and Meghalaya and among the Nayars of Malabar in Kerala.
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