The nuclear family in Minangkabau matriliny: the mirror of disputes

In the past, adolescence for girls represented a major break with both the freedom of childhood and the authority and responsibility of adulthood. [...]education, especially education away from the village, has allowed changes in lifestyle and demeanor for adolescent Minangkabau girls. [...]a woman may discover either that making such a choice can result in a serious price in terms of kin group relations and/or she may find the man she has chosen is not emotionally free to marry her, and that he has ultimately accepted his mother's choice. According to Islam he need only state "I divorce you" for the divorce to have occurred. [...]the wife's etek, i.e. MoSi or other close matrilineally related woman of the wife's mother's generation, had reported the divorce to the appropriate village official (P3NTR) and he had recorded it. [...]the husband went to the official to report that he and his wife were reconciled.