Royalty83:
Biafrans are low life wailers.

You people are just irredeemable so people will gain relevance just to mention Igbo in any useless write up..

Adopting a male child is not a taboo, unless it is in your hometown. In mine it's not.
Most males in some families are actually a product of baby mamas or separation, their grandad takes them back as his son and they continue as his bloodline hence adopting them.



OP; a male child isn't really necessary, unless his culture( from his home town directly) has a way of intimidating those without male kids.

Then again adopting a male son isnt also a taboo.

He should take care of which ever gender God gives him..

Pastoshizzy:
Igbos are rich in culture.
You should have a son, a better version of yourself. Your quota to the clan. A man to take charge of all that you have worked for. Your voice when you're old. That is how it is.
To adopt a male child as an heir is a taboo.
But then, things are evolving. Women have exceeded a man's average as regards greatness. Some daughters have really done their father proud.

I think it has to do with some culture in Igboland about inheritance and people has really bring problem to theirselves because of this inheritance of a thing because you'll go marry a second wife have a baby outside and will cause problem to yourself and family. If we should know that after our date we have finish our work on Earth. If you have only female children write a will and after your date they will inherit your properties.

Solocoin:
I think it has to do with some culture in Igboland about inheritance and people has really bring problem to theirselves because of this inheritance of a thing because you'll go marry a second wife have a baby outside and will cause problem to yourself and family. If we should know that after our date we have finish our work on Earth. If you have only female children write a will and after your date they will inherit your properties.

I think your will works only and majorly for properties in the cities, and when you have only females. If you have only females and they marry very far, your Daughter might not step foot in there father's village for 10Years because they are either enjoying city life or too busy coming to check things in the village, when this is the situation, village people go just dey cruise the properties or sell them off. But when you have a Male child, the guy will always be in the Village at least yearly.

okine4real:


I think your will works only and majorly for properties in the cities, and when you have only females. If you have only females and they marry very far, your Daughter might not step foot in there father's village for 10Years because they are either enjoying city life or too busy coming to check things in the village, when this is the situation, village people go just dey cruise the properties or sell them off. But when you have a Male child, the guy will always be in the Village at least yearly.

My brother things has changed long time ago. This is 21th century, survey your landed property and make a proper documentation of your properties nobody will touch it.

Efewestern:


Maybe you still don't get me when I say women enjoy as much liberty as men in this part. A woman is part of the family. Doesn't matter if she is single, married, alive or even dead. She has equal stake as male and so she is typically carried along in almost everything/process.

Women's right in Igbo land is conditional. Ours isn't. Our forebears have always treated female and male with great sense of regards and equity. The benefits males have over females here is just irrelevant. Although there are things reserved for males (first sons).

You can't deny a woman her ancestral inheritance on the basis that is she married. You also can't exclude her offspring from what's due to them too. I can still lay claim to some huge benefits from my maternal grandparent's family and I won't be denied.

I know of Umuada and from my little experience,I know they are mostly relevant during traditional marriage rites and some other activities. They can't stand when real decision are being made by the males in that family.

This huge difference between our various culture has an effect on the females Psych. The way Urhobo women behave in marriage is different from the way Igbo women will behave.

Soon Urhobo land, a married woman gets a share from his husband inheritance and also from his father's inheritance?

Isn't that unfair to the males?

Igboid:



Soon Urhobo land, a married woman gets a share from his husband inheritance and also from his father's inheritance?

Isn't that unfair to the males?

Does a woman gets anything from her husband's inheritance or her kids? In polygamous/monogamous home, inheritance are shared to the kids. If a man with four estates married 3 wives for example.

1st wife gave birth to 6 boys
2nd wife gave birth to 2 girls
3rd wife has no child.

The third wife with no kid is automatically out of any inheritance. The first son takes the man's flat. The estate will then be shared equally. The first wife/gate with 6 boys takes 2 estate, the second wife/gate with two girls take two estate. Some families might share three estates equally to the two gate/wives and share the remaining estate to the man's brothers and sisters. The man's ancestral inheritance is also shared with similar formula.

So a woman really has no inheritance in her husband's home. Inheritance are shared to the kids. So a child regardless of gender takes from his/her mother's and father's inheritance.

Whether this is fair on the males is subjective. First sons also enjoy some benefits.

Solocoin:

My brother things has changed long time ago. This is 21th century, survey your landed property and make a proper documentation of your properties nobody will touch it.

Survey no be land document. It's very difficult for you to see a man that has land Document for land for village. Some people get like 50 plots of land for village, inside bush, they don't survey not to talk of having C of O, they just mark the boundaries of the land. So if you give your daughter this land and this your daughter marry for Lagos or PH, watin she go come do inside that thick forest? Abi you know know say lots of people get 100ths of plots for village and the land dey waste? This family self get Male Children when dey even come village ohh, not to talk of say you give the lands to female children when fit know step foot for her father's village after marriage.

Efewestern:


Does a woman gets anything from her husband's inheritance or her kids? In polygamous/monogamous home, inheritance are shared to the kids. If a man with four estates married 3 wives for example.

1st wife gave birth to 6 boys
2nd wife gave birth to 2 girls
3rd wife has no child.

The third wife with no kid is automatically out of any inheritance. The first son takes the man's flat. The estate will then be shared equally. The first wife/gate with 6 boys takes 2 estate, the second wife/gate with two girls take two estate. Some families might share three estates equally to the two gate/wives and share the remaining estate to the man's brothers and sisters. The man's ancestral inheritance is also shared with similar formula.

So a woman really has no inheritance in her husband's home. Inheritance are shared to the kids. So a child regardless of gender takes from his/her mother's and father's inheritance.

Whether this is fair on the males is subjective. First sons also enjoy some benefits.

Well a married woman gets lands from his husband to farm on in Igboland.

So I guess that's where the Igbo balances the equation.

Adaobiii:

GO and read about the new inheritance law...

So you think a typical Igbo man concerns himself with the inheritance law from non-Igbo origins?

folake4u:


Lmao. Please and please. Don't embarrass yourself. You failed your parents by wasting their funds on your education, that's if you had one anyways.

Sharap mugu ewedu muncher. Women are 4th class species in Nigeria and Africa at large after Men, Animals and insects.

charlsecy:
So you think a typical Igbo man concerns himself with the inheritance law from non-Igbo origins?

No mind the mugu