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Yorùbá Thoughts and Beliefs in Child Birth and Child Moral Upbringing: A Cultural Perspective child inside pepper basket so he/she can get Acquainted to PEPPER bfore he/she grows up In Yoruba culture, after giving birth, they put the child inside pepper basket so he/she can get Acquainted to PEPPER bfore he/she grows up Yorùbá thoughts and beliefs in childbirth and childmoral upbringing as expressed in Yorùbá philosophy and culture are the focus of this paper. The paper pays considerable attention to the prominent position children occupied in the thoughts and beliefs of the Yorùbá, this we attributed to why they take absolute care of their children. Some of the findings of this paper is that the main purpose why people of Yorùbá extraction venture and spend physically, economically and emotionally on marriage is to have morally and economically formidable children. We show that according to the dictates of Yorùbá culture, marriage precedes pregnancy, then, tending of pregnancy, child