The Family- Terms & Definitions

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Across
  1. 2. The position or class a person or group of people have in society.
  2. 5. A family consisting of a mother, father, and child or children.
  3. 7. Unlawful sexual relations between people who are closely related
  4. 9. Culturally defined relationships between individuals who are commonly thought of as having family ties.
  5. 12. A family structure where the mother is in authority
  6. 13. The custom of one woman having more than one husband.
  7. 15. Living with the wife's parents after marriage.
  8. 17. To legally dissolve a marriage union between two persons.
  9. 18. A legal union between two people in a relationship.
  10. 20. A system where the wife lives with the husband's parents after marriage
  11. 21. The custom of one man having two or more wives.
  12. 22. Having a blood relationship and common ancestral ties with others.
Down
  1. 1. A social organization in which the father is the head of the family.
  2. 3. The passing of traits and characteristics from parent to child.
  3. 4. A relationship with the fathers or male line of the family.
  4. 6. Several generations living together under the same roof.
  5. 8. A man having more than one wife at the same time.
  6. 10. A relationship with the mother or female line of the family.
  7. 11. Kinship with the father and male line of the family
  8. 14. Kinship with the mother and female line of the family
  9. 15. The practice of having only one partner.
  10. 16. Located apart from the families of either spouse
  11. 19. To reverse the legal union of marriage, making it void.