Not less diversified are the customs governing the effects of divorce; and here, as in the case of its varying forms and conditions, one is almost as often surprised by the reasonableness and stability of early institutions as he is shocked at their harshness or injustice when regarded from the civilized standpoint. In the disposal of the children the existing system of kinship is very widely determinative. Among a great many peoples, in case of separation, the children follow the father or the mother according as mother-right or father-right prevails;[797] and where a mixed system, or rather a coincidence of mother-right and paternal authority,[798] is found, or else relationship is cognatic, they are divided between the parents or their kindred.[799] The division is determined by a variety of rules among different peoples. Often they are equally divided, regardless of sex.[800] Sometimes, as in Bulgaria,[801] Burma,[802] and among the Natchez Indians,[803] the daughters follow the mother and the sons remain with the father. In still other cases, as in certain South Slavonian districts, the father takes the adult children, while those of tender years are left in the mother's hands. Such is the rule in Zara and in Bosnia.[804] In Lika, according to Krauss, when all the children are males, the mother receives the minors, if the father consents; but when they are of both sexes, the sons follow the father and the daughters the mother. In this last case, however, the man is required to pay the divorced woman whatever is needed to supply the bridal outfit of the daughters when they reach marriageable age. When it happens at the time of separation that all the children are grown-up daughters, they are allowed a free choice between the parents. Should none remain with the father, the mother and daughters are entitled to all the property gained during marriage.[805] Often in case of divorce the children belong to the innocent party;[806] unless children are regarded as a burden, when the opposite rule prevails;[807] or unless the system of kinship determines the disposition of the offspring, when an equitable adjustment is otherwise made. Thus among the African Fantis of the Gold Coast--where by law the children belong to the mother's family--in case of divorce through fault of the woman, the man is entitled to a sum equal to 22s. 6d. for each child; and when by stipulation the sons remain with the father, he is nevertheless not permitted to sell them or put them in pawn. If the divorced wife cannot restore to the husband the price paid for her, the children are left with him as a pledge for the debt until by their service they have paid it with 50 per cent. interest. In this way, we are told, children often become slaves for life to their own father and as such are even transmitted to his heirs.[808]