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  2. Family estrangement - Wikipedia

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    Although the rejected party's psychological and physical health may decline, the estrangement initiator's may improve due to the cessation of abuse and conflict. [8] [9] The social rejection in family estrangement is the equivalent of ostracism which undermines four fundamental human needs: the need to belong, the need for control in social situations, the need to maintain high levels of self ...

  3. Sibling estrangement - Wikipedia

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    Appearance. Sibling estrangement or sibling alienation is the breakdown of relationships between siblings resulting in a lack of communication or outright avoidance of each other. It is a phenomenon that can occur in families for various reasons such as unresolved conflicts, personality differences, distance, or life events.

  4. Yaśodharā - Wikipedia

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    Yaśodharā was the daughter of King Suppabuddha, [ 5 ][ 6 ] and Amita. She was born on the same day in the month of Vaishaka as prince Siddhartha. Her grandfather was Añjana, a Koliya [ 7 ] chief, her father was Suppabuddha and her mother, Amitā, came from a Shakya family. The Shakya and the Koliya were branches of the Ādicca (Sanskrit ...

  5. Legality of incest - Wikipedia

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    A person and the child of one of his full, consanguineous or uterine brothers or sisters or with a descendant thereof. The mother or the father and the husband or the wife, the widower or the widow of his child or of another of his descendants. Stepmother or stepfather and the descendant of the other spouse.

  6. Prohibited degree of kinship - Wikipedia

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    Prohibited degree of kinship. 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. An incest taboo between parent and child or two full-blooded siblings is a cultural ...

  7. Traditional Chinese marriage - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Chinese marriage. A Qing dynasty wedding. The groom's parents are seated. The bride is the one in the centre wearing a red dress and blue headpiece, presenting tea to her mother-in-law. The groom usually wears a sash forming an "X" in front of him. Sometimes the "X" includes a giant bow or flower, though not in this picture.

  8. Legitimacy (family law) - Wikipedia

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    Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce. Conversely, illegitimacy, also known as bastardy, has been the status of a child born outside marriage, such a child being known as a bastard, a love ...

  9. 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 ...