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Examples of chosen kin include godparents, adopted children, and close family friends. [5]: 31–32 The idea of fictive kin has been used to analyze aging, [6] foreign fighters, [7] immigrant communities, [3] and minorities [8] [9] in modern societies. Some researchers state that peers have the potential to create fictive kin networks. [10]
Kinship terminologies include the terms of address used in different languages or communities for different relatives and the terms of reference used to identify the relationship of these relatives to ego or to each other. Kin terminologies can be either descriptive or classificatory. When a descriptive terminology is used, a term refers to ...
Most scholars today call this use of “brothers and sisters” a metaphor (see Reider Aasgaard in My Beloved Brothers and Sisters) or a specimen of “fictive kinship language” (see Joseph ...
A family of choice, also known as a chosen family, found family, or hānai family [1] is a term that refers to a non-biologically related group of people established to provide ongoing social support.
Examples of matrilocal societies include the people of Ngazidja in the Comoros, the Ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon, the Nair community in Kerala in South India, the Moso of Yunnan and Sichuan in southwestern China, the Siraya of Taiwan, and the Minangkabau of western Sumatra.
Others who are not related by blood or marriage, but have a significant emotional relationship are variously called fictive kin, chosen kin, or voluntary kin: [53] for example, a close family friend that one would refer to as an aunt or uncle, but shares no genetic or marital relationship.
In some parts of Turkey, mainly in the eastern, Kurdish-majority regions, a kind of fictive kinship relationship called kirvelik exists connected with the Islamic ritual of circumcision. The man who holds a male child who is being circumcised becomes the kirîv of the child; at the same time, the kirîv and the boy's parents become kirîv s in ...
Named kin may function similarly to religious communities by increasing familiarity and increasing prosocial behavior, however little research appears to have been conducted on this form of fictive kin. [63] Godparents are one of the better-known ritual kin systems in Western culture. Godparents are common to Catholic (and other Christian ...