Surrogate marriage
The phrase "surrogate marriage" may refer to marriage as the result of widow inheritance or "woman-to-woman marriage" among certain African communities where a woman is infertile and her family substitutes another woman to bear children for her. In Igbo culture of Nigeria, a practice known as "woman-to-woman marriage" allows a woman to marry another woman and become a "female-husband." This is a recognized social and cultural institution, primarily used to address the cultural significance of male children to carry on lineage continuity when a family lacks an heir.