Relatives are people who have a relationship with each other. This relationship arises from marriage , adoption , consanguinity or other stable ties that are analogous.
From the perspective of blood , kinship is generated by descent or by common ancestry . Let's suppose that Juan is the father of Carlos and Jorge . This means that Juan , Carlos and Jorge are relatives: Juan is the father of Carlos and Jorge and, therefore, Carlos and Jorge are Juan 's children. In turn, Carlos and Jorge are brothers. These family ties are born from consanguinity.
Kinship is also generated through the law . Marcos and Ana , upon marrying, become relatives (husbands). Ana 's brother, in this framework, becomes Marcos' brother-in-law, while Marcos ' mother is now Ana 's mother-in-law. As you can see, Ana and Marcos 's brother do not share a blood relationship, nor do Marcos 's mother and Ana herself; anyway, they are related to each other.
From a young age, society imposes on us the need to remain united with our blood relatives. Ideas like "a child is for life" or "if you stop talking to your father you will regret it when you no longer have him" push us to think twice before deciding to cut one of these ties. However, life is not as simple as in a fairy tale, and relationships often become unbearable.
With the exception of marriage, kinship is a property that we cannot avoid or reverse: no one prevents us from divorcing a person with whom we do not achieve happiness, but there is no effective method to stop belonging to a family group, to a tree. genealogical that hurts us. The parents are good, the grandparents are extremely generous and the uncles are funny until there is a case of sexual or psychological abuse within the family nucleus; It is then that society remembers that our relatives can also be monsters.
In any case, an experience as horrible as sexual abuse is not necessary to feel the desire to end a relationship. Since we cannot choose our blood relatives, throughout our development we may discover that we simply do not like them, that their fundamental ideas are very different, and that it does us no good to stay close to them. If once we reach adulthood we realize that our parents' ethical principles are opposite to ours, we may not be able to sustain the relationship.
Dialogue between two people who have opposite opinions regarding the death penalty, abuse and exploitation of animals, sexual freedom or women's rights, among other sensitive issues , is very difficult. Although society does not prepare us to separate from our relatives or protect us once we make this decision, staying with someone who does not bring us anything positive or who collaborates with causes opposite to ours is a mistake that we should not make.
In the case of animals and plants , two species are said to be related when they are part of the same taxon . In this context it can be stated that dogs , wolves and coyotes are relatives because they all make up the canid family group. Likewise, the onion and the leek are related as they belong to the group of amaryllis plants .