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  2. Niece and nephew - Wikipedia

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    e. In the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a niece or nephew is a child of an individual's sibling or sibling-in-law. A niece is female and a nephew is male, and they would call their parents' siblings aunt or uncle. The gender-neutral term nibling has been used in place of the common terms, especially in specialist ...

  3. Family - Wikipedia

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    When only the relative has the additional removal, the relative is the subjects siblings child, the terms Niece and Nephew are used for female and male relatives respectively. The spouse of a biological aunt or uncle is an aunt or uncle, and the nieces and nephews of a spouse are nieces and nephews.

  4. Immediate family - Wikipedia

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    Immediate family. The immediate family is a defined group of relations, used in rules or laws to determine which members of a person's family are affected by those rules. It normally includes a person's parents, siblings, spouse, and children. [1] It can contain others connected by birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership, or cohabitation ...

  5. Lineal descendant - Wikipedia

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    A lineal or direct descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person.In a legal procedure sense, lineal descent refers to the acquisition of estate by inheritance by parent from grandparent and by child from parent, whereas collateral descent refers to the acquisition of estate or real property ...

  6. Legality of incest in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Northern Mariana Islands. A person who is related either legitimately or illegitimately, as. (1) an ancestor or descendant of the whole or half blood; (2) a brother or sister of the whole or half blood; or. (3) an uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece by blood. A person 18 years of age or older engages in sexual penetration.

  7. Avunculate marriage - Wikipedia

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    Avunculate marriage. An avunculate marriage is a marriage with a parent's sibling or with one's sibling's child—i.e., between an uncle or aunt and their niece or nephew. Such a marriage may occur between biological (consanguine) relatives or between persons related by marriage (affinity).

  8. Family tree - Wikipedia

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    Family tree showing the relationship of each person to the orange person, including cousins and gene share. A family tree, also called a genealogy or a pedigree chart, is a chart representing family relationships in a conventional tree structure. More detailed family trees, used in medicine and social work, are known as genograms.

  9. Coefficient of relationship - Wikipedia

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    The coefficient of relationship is a measure of the degree of consanguinity (or biological relationship) between two individuals. The term coefficient of relationship was defined by Sewall Wright in 1922, and was derived from his definition of the coefficient of inbreeding of 1921. The measure is most commonly used in genetics and genealogy.