Parents and children maintain a kinship.
Kinship is defined as the bond that is formed as a result of consanguinity, adoption, marriage , affinity or other stable bond based on genuine affection. These are, therefore, relationships that can be triggered by biological factors or not and that are organized according to lines that allow multiple degrees to be recognized.
Two individuals can be related through three basic situations: consanguinity, affinity or adoption. The first of the mentioned is determined by blood inheritance and is achieved, then, when there is at least one common ascendant. The proximity of this type of kinship is determined based on the number of generations that opens a certain gap between the people in question.
The lines of kinship
From a legal point of view, the concept is taken into account when carrying out certain procedures related to inheritance issues, social benefits, compensation, etc. In this perspective, kinship is calculated taking into account the number of generations that separate the two involved in said process. In this way, each generation is taken into account as a degree, and the sum of the successive degrees forms the line of succession.
The line of blood relationship can be:
* straight : allows you to identify the degrees that separate the subjects from each other. It can be ascending (when it connects an individual with those who descend directly: great-grandfather-grandfather-father) or descending (it associates the ancestor with those who descend directly and successively: great-great-grandson-great-grandson-grandson);
* collateral : focuses on the series of degrees that exist between those with the same ascendant, but that do not descend from each other. For example, the case of brothers and cousins.
The different generations of a family are linked by lines of kinship.
Affinity and consanguinity
In turn, a distinction can be found between kinship by affinity (a relationship established with members of one's own family) and by consanguinity (with respect to the spouse's family or with the spouses of a member of one's own family ).
Finally, the concept can be used to talk about the union or link that is established between different things. An example of a relationship of this type is the one established between football and rugby; These are two sports that at first glance are widely different, but that have similarities both in certain rules of the game and in other aspects of their organization.
Sayings and kinship
Proverbs are popular phrases or sayings that are considered within the cultural background of a people and their purpose is to give some teaching or simply express a portion of popular wisdom . Within them we can find maxims, aphorisms and adages, among many other genres.
Regarding kinship, there are many proverbs that refer to the characteristics that a young person should have if he is from this or that family, or on the contrary, they allow us to understand inappropriate behavior if it is known that he is a descendant of someone who could have acted in a similar way.
Taking into account that the characteristics of the parents are transmitted to the children, and that inheritance, in some way, is everything for the formation of personality and character, the following examples can be mentioned:
"Like the tree, like the splinter", "Like the crow, like the egg", "Like the crow, like the egg", "Like the crow, like the egg", "Like the crow, like the egg", "Like the crow, like the egg", "Like the tree, like the bunch", the goat, what can it be but a goat?", "Blood is inherited, and vice becomes attached."
At the same time, there are some proverbs that indicate that certain issues that characterize parents are not found in their children, describing cases in which the latter are opposite to their parents ; for example: "From a holy father, a devil son."