<span>I am totally sure that this option B. Male heads of households held great power and could even kill their own children is a key feature of Rome's patriarchal society.</span>
The family was regulated. The order above all. Each family unit consisted of a paterfamilias or father of a family under whose authority and guardianship was the wife, the children, the slaves of their property and the clients, if this was important enough to have them.
It was composed of all those individuals who were born free living under the proper behavior of a natural and legal parental status, political, economic, religious, etc, civil status and social status in the Roman way, this meant assuming both the protection and the authority of the head of family that could be a pater families and a mater families when the wife widowed.
