The Wonder's of Family

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Across
  1. 2. a relative, social or professional position.
  2. 3. the legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or competent body.
  3. 5. is when a married couple decides to live separately but remains legally married.
  4. 8. the practice of marrying or state of being married to one person at a time.
  5. 9. in which the father or a male elder has absolute authority over the family group
  6. 10. is a legal procedure that cancels a marriage.
  7. 12. the relationship between members of a family.
  8. 13. a family where the siblings live together without the parent's, due to the parents being either not present or deceased.
  9. 17. is one in which the father takes the lead role in making decisions and raising children.
  10. 21. a family consisting of a mother, father, and child or children.
  11. 23. is the tracing of kinship through the female line.
  12. 25. treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant.
  13. 26. is a form of polygamy but in which a woman has more than one husband.
Down
  1. 1. the legally or formally recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship.
  2. 4. is the familial custom where the mother is the leader of the family unit but not in a dominant manner.
  3. 6. a family which extends beyond the nuclear family to includes grandparents and other relatives.
  4. 7. the process of learning to behave in a way that is acceptable to society
  5. 9. is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage.
  6. 11. is the practice of marrying multiple spouses.
  7. 14. a brother or sister or having both parents in common.
  8. 15. refers to a type of family where a couple chooses to move away from their families and create their own home.
  9. 16. the family structure in which the female is the head of the family; this is mainly in the context of the breadwinner.
  10. 18. is having a sexual relationship between personal relatives so closely related that they are forbidden by law.
  11. 19. is a family where at least one parent has children who are not biologically related to their spouse.
  12. 20. financial support that a person is ordered by a court to give to their spouse during separation or following divorce.
  13. 22. the offence of marrying someone while already married to another person.
  14. 24. a parent raising a child or dependent on their own without another person in their home helping out.