Ties That Bind
Across
- 2. A person's position or role within a group.
- 5. A man having multiple wives.
- 6. Tracing family descent through both parents' lines.
- 9. Tracing family descent through the mother's line.
- 10. Tracing family descent through the father's line.
- 14. The legal process of raising another's child as your own.
- 19. A married couple establishing a new home away from both families.
- 20. A court order for a couple to live apart while remaining married.
- 24. A married couple living with or near the wife's family.
- 25. The period before marriage when a couple develops a relationship.
- 26. The legal union of two people.
- 28. A family centered on the father.
- 29. The legal ending of a marriage.
- 30. A woman having multiple husbands.
- 32. A brother or sister.
Down
- 1. A family centered on the mother.
- 3. family: A family with children raised by one parent.
- 4. family: A family unit that includes relatives outside the nuclear family.
- 7. Financial support from one ex-spouse to another after a divorce.
- 8. Marriage within a specific group.
- 10. A married couple living with or near the husband's family.
- 11. Sexual relations between close relatives.
- 12. planning: Managing the number and spacing of children.
- 13. A couple living together as if married without a legal ceremony.
- 15. Property passed down to heirs.
- 16. A declaration that a marriage was never legally valid.
- 17. Marriage to only one person at a time.
- 18. Marriage outside of a specific group.
- 21. A family where power is shared equally between partners.
- 22. family: A family consisting of two parents and their children.
- 23. family: A household where siblings live together without their parents.
- 26. A family led by the mother or oldest female.
- 27. The act of marrying a person while still legally married to another.
- 28. A family led by the father or oldest male.
- 31. A relationship between people, usually by blood or marriage.