Our children whom we have begotten in lawful wedlock are in our power.
1 Wedlock or matrimony is the union of male and female, involving the habitual intercourse of daily life.
2 The power which we have over our children is peculiar to Roman citizens, and is found in no other nation.
3 The offspring then of you and your wife is in your power, and so too is that of your son and his wife, that is to say, your grandson and granddaughter, and so on. But the offspring of your daughter is not in your power, but in that of its own father.