Note 797 — Chapter V · EARLY HISTORY OF DIVORCE

So in case of divorce among the Omahas, where, as Dorsey believes, "father-right has succeeded mother-right," the woman cannot take the children with her if the man is unwilling; although in practice they "are sometimes taken by their mother, and sometimes by her mother or their father's mother."—"Omaha Sociology," III. Rep. of Bureau of Eth., 225, 262.

In China a divorce completely dissolves the marriage; the woman returns to her family, if it will receive her; the children remain with the father; and the purchase price is returned to him, unless his conduct has caused the divorce. When her family declines to receive the woman she becomes sui juris: Möllendorff, Das chin. Familienrecht, 34.