The basic household and kin-group forms kinship studies distinguishes: the nuclear family of parents and children, the extended family incorporating further generations or collateral kin under shared obligation, and fictive kinship, a socially recognized kin bond with no biological or marital basis, such as ritual sponsorship or blood brotherhood. Belongs here: a named family or household form. Does not belong here: the ritual act that creates a fictive bond, such as blood brotherhood as a practiced ceremony, grouped under the Ethnography and Cultural Practices category, this subcategory covering the resulting kin structure rather than the ceremony that produces it.
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1. Wikipedia: Kinship
WikipediaKinship, Family types section
Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrifocal (a mother and her children); conjugal (a husband, his wife, and children; also called nuclear family); avuncular (a brother, his sister, and her children); or extended family in which parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent's family.
Kinship, lead section
In anthropology, kinship is the web of social relationships that form an important part of the lives of all humans in all societies, although its exact meanings even within this discipline are often debated.
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