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Think of it this way: your mom’s first cousin’s child is your second cousin. Or, your grandpa’s brother’s grandchild (your dad’s aunt’s grandchild) is your second cousin.
A cousin is a relative that is the child of a parent's sibling; this is more specifically referred to as a first cousin. More generally, in the kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a cousin is a type of relationship in which relatives are two or more generations away from their most recent common ancestor.
A travel insurance policy which covers curtailment due to the death or illness of a member of the policy-holder's "immediate family" uses a wide definition but adds residential requirements: "Immediate Family is your Partner, and: parents, children, stepchildren, fostered or adopted children, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews ...
Each summer my parents put on "Cousin Camp" for the grandkids. For the past 8 years, they invite all the grandkids age 5+ to spend 4 days on the farm, away from parents, with their cousins.
In some cultures and families, children may refer to the cousins of their parents as uncle (or aunt). It is also used as a title of respect for older relatives, neighbours, acquaintances, family friends, and even total strangers in some cultures, for example Aboriginal Australian elders. Using the term in this way is a form of fictive kinship.
A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited. [1]
‘I told her I wasn’t having a child free wedding, Cerrie just wasn’t invited,’ groom wrote in his Reddit post Groom defended after explaining why he didn’t include 12-year-old cousin ...