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The degree of kinship between two people may give rise to several legal issues. Some laws prohibit sexual relations between closely related people, referred to as incestuous.
Consanguine marriage is marriage between individuals who are closely related. Though it may involve incest , it implies more than the sexual nature of incest. In a clinical sense, marriage between two family members who are second cousins or closer qualifies as consanguineous marriage.
The concept of consanguinism developed from a series of essays written by Liu Qingping in the early 2000s. In a 2007 paper published in Chinese philosophical journal Dao, Liu claims that the concept of “consanguineous affection” is a “distinctive spirit of Confucianism” that is vital to achieving the Confucian goal of “sagehood”. [1]
In law, a prohibited degree of kinship refers to a degree of consanguinity (blood relatedness), or sometimes affinity (relation by marriage or sexual relationship) between persons that makes sex or marriage between them illegal.
Kinship terminology is the system used in languages to refer to the persons to whom an individual is related through kinship.Different societies classify kinship relations differently and therefore use different systems of kinship terminology; for example, some languages distinguish between consanguine and affinal uncles (i.e. the brothers of one's parents and the husbands of the sisters of ...
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 ().
The consanguine family is the first stage of the family and as such a primary indicator of our superior nature in comparison with animals. In this state marriage groups are separated according to generations.
A multi-generational extended family of Eastern Orthodox priest in Jerusalem, c. 1893. Family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage), or co-residence/shared consumption (see Nurture kinship).