Married Igbo daughters play crucial roles in both families. In their husbands' families, they play crucial roles as "Ndi Ndom"(or "Ndi Iyom"), while in their fathers' families, they play crucial roles as "Umuada".
These roles are compulsory and are played simultaneously, because, from the Igbo perspective, married daughters were "not sold", they were "given out".
When eventually, a married daughter dies, her father's family will be fully involved in the activities of her funeral.
What the above implies, is that Igbo married daughters traditionally, belong to both families, including their children (umu nwanwa).
CAO.
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