Abstract
Abstract The belief that the husband owns the child, prevalent in Yoruba cultural system, is the issue of engagement in this research. The research traced the justification for this belief to patriarchy. The paper found that patriarchy, is only a masculine hegemony, socially entrenched and unchecked within the Yoruba social system. Consequently, building it on the philosophical framework of Hobbes and Locke, the paper argued that; considering the fact that each sex is biologically determined and the complementary contribution made by each towards procreation, it is consistent to conclude that the child belongs to both parents. Considering the assumption that each parent is a natural object, conditioned to respond to procreation eliciting natural promptings, it follows that the children belong to Nature. The paper therefore concludes that family laws in Yoruba societies ought to reflect equal ownership of children by both parents. Methodology used include textual analysis and argumentative investigation.
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