You should obey your parents.

I must request you to obey my orders.

However, there remain customs and practices the result in inequality between men and women and thus fail to ensure women's rights, such as the custom of women have to follow their husband and a young girl has to obey her father, a young married woman has to obey her husband, the widow has to obey her son .

Only States are parties to conventions non State actors are not bound by them. More important, most armed groups obey no laws, national or international.

as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Family is perhaps the paramount social institution (often, multiple generations live together under one roof), and within the family roles and authority are clearly defined Younger members defer to older ones, women defer to men.

As the Minister herself had said, the Convention now took precedence over the Civil Code in matters like the stipulations of article 252 that a woman had to obey her husband and article 261, the right to exercise choice of a profession and a domicile.