Across
- 4. (n)a person who has the legal right to receive somebody’s property, money or title when that person dies
- 8. (n) the study of family history, including the study of who the ancestors of a particular person were
- 9. (adj) connected with being a mother
- 11. (adj) (of people, especially two members of the same family) older
- 12. (n) the family or the group of people that you come from
- 14. (n) a person whose marriage has been legally ended, especially a woman
- 16. (adj) (of a parent, child or family) in that relationship as a result of the parent legally adopting the child
- 18. (v) to take another person’s child into your home for a period of time, without becoming his or her legal parents
Down
- 1. (adj) being kind and showing feelings of love in a way that you would expect a brother to behave
- 2. (n) a child whose parents are dead
- 3. (n) the children, the children’s children, and all the people who live after them who are related to them
- 5. (adj) born to parents who are not married to each other
- 6. (n) a person who promises at a Christian baptism ceremony to be responsible for a child (= his or her godchild) and to teach them about the Christian religion
- 7. (n) a person whose job is to take care of young children in the children’s own home
- 10. (n) the process of caring for your child or children
- 13. (adj) no longer living with your husband, wife or partner
- 15. (adj) having parents from two different races
- 17. (n) the man who is the head of a family