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Vocabulary: the family

                                                            SHE and HE = A couple

                                                           EVE and ADAM 

Everyone has heard this story... Is it a legend? Is it the truth? It doesn't really matter, does it? The point is that each and everyone of us is said to be descended from "The First Men". Then, they were told and felt that they should multiply and replenish the Earth. That's what they did! Each of us has a navel or belly-button, the proof  of a link with a mother and of our Humanity.

Each of us may recognize himself or herself in our "fellow human beings" but is nonetheless "unique". Let's not forget it! 

A) NATURE :

The Family Tree	The Nuclear family	A community	Genealogy Research
Dad= Daddy	Mom= Mummy	My Son= a male child	My Daughter= a female child
Bro= Brothers	Sis= Sisters	Grandfather= GrandPa	Grandmother= GrandMa

The "nuclear family" developed, with the birth of brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces... and let's not forget cousins...

An aunt= a parents' sister	An uncle= a parents' brother                = Uncle Sam *	A nephew               = their son	A niece          = their daughter
First cousins	Second cousins	Second cousins once removed	Are you lost ? It's easy to be...

*= Uncle Sam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Sam

** A little vocabulary wink  : "to go to my uncle's"= to go to the pawnshop/ hockshop = the place where unredeemed objects are displayed and sold   (In French = "to my aunt's"!)

It's very difficult to find one's way through the different categories of cousins. Let's remember that our brothers' and sisters' kids are "first cousins"). If you want to try and have fun, you may look deeply into the different charts above.   

"Removed" - "once removed", "twice removed" (meaning "far away, distant") indicate that these cousins do not belong to the same generationl! You can try.... I have given up...

B)... When The Law intermingles...

1) THE IN-LAWS

2) The STEP parents (because of a second marriage): 

3) ADOPTIVE or FOSTER Families: 

 You must make a distinction between adoptive families (adoptive mother/ adoptive father) and foster families (foster mother/ foster father) who take care of the kid but have no legal link to him or her.

                                                                   A SINGLE-PARENT FAMILY

A single-parent family is no longer a rare phenomenon... Fathers, and Mothers frequently bring up their kids on their own, which is often quite a tricky task for either of them. On the contrary, families can be "re-constituted" or "blended" and many kids may live together in a single household.  

Well, well ! That's it! Let's see if you're going to find your way through this somewhat complicated creation!  

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1. It's true I have three brotherssisters-in-lawauntsI don't know, Tom, Mark and Ian but only one grandmothersisteruncleI don't know, Cassy.
2. ' Dominic is your father's brother, and therefore your father-in-lawhusbanduncleI don't know. His motherauntwifeI don't know Helen is your auntmothersister-in-lawI don't know and Chris, their child, is your nieceunclefirst cousinI don't know.', Mom said.
'Of course not, MomGrandMaAuntieI don't know, Monika is older than Chris... and she is my first cousin. Oh? Can we really have several of them? '
3. Pedro, an orphan, is living at the Thomsons', his parents-in-lawnephewsfoster parentsI don't know. Patricia is his foster motherauntmother-in-lawI don't know and Julian is his father-in-lawunclefoster fatherI don't know. As Pedro cannot be adopted, they'll never be his grandparentsin-lawsadoptive parentsI don't know but they love their cousinfoster sondaughterI don't know a lot anyway.
4. ' Laura's family is quite complicated... She had only two sistersbrothersdaughtersI don't know, Lea and Abby, but now she has one big step-brotherforter-daughterfatherI don't know as her father remarried. His new aunthusbandwifeI don't know is pregnant, and Laura will soon have a new step-brothercousinhalf- brotherI don't know.'