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What term is used to describe the social custom of children becoming a part of their mother's tribe.​

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Answer: matrilineal society, also called matriliny,

Explanation: group adhering to a kinship system in which ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal lines (the latter being termed patrilineage or patriliny).