The Family Code currently in enforcement in Taiwan upholds the principles of male supremacy and of seniority. The father and the husband are given a superior position accompanied with exploitative prerogative. Through the profoundly complex interaction between the unfair sexual relations and generational relations, the wife, the mother, and the daughter-in-law can be, and are often, deprived to an astonishing degree of their rights and dignity. Therefore, in 1992, women victimized by the Fominly Code and feminist organizations joined force and started the struggle for the revision of the Family Code. Finally, this year, the Legislative Yuan begins the procedure of revising the law. To be able to effectively update the law, what we urgently need is a clear understanding of the ideology of patriarchy embedded in the current law. This paper is written for this specific purpose. In accordance with the divisions of the Family Code, the paper contains four parts, which deals respectively with : (1)the general effects of marriage, (2)divorce, (3)parent-child relations, and (4)domestic relations in non-nuclear families and traditional families, and also the extension or implication of these relations at the national and international levels. In each part, the individual articles will be analyzed and, when necessary, compared "intertexually" with corresponding social phenomena; then, at the end of each part, suggestions for the revision of the discussed articles will be offered. This format is designed to help achieve the purpose of this paper－that is, to actively influence the revision of the Family Code.