The document discusses different types of family relationships and the terms used to describe them. It provides a chart listing common family members and their relationship to the individual, such as parent, sibling, child, grandparent, and spouse. It also describes stepfamilies and blended families that are created through marriage, divorce, or other life changes and may include step-parents, step-siblings, and other relatives through marriage rather than birth.

1. Prof Armando Castillo
INGL 2105
Let’s Talk About Family
Your sibling is your brother or sister. If you have 1 brother and 2 sisters, then you have 3 siblings. Your parent is your father or mother.
Your child is your son or daughter. Yourspouse is your husband or wife.
You may also have a stepfamily. Your stepfamily includes people who became part of your family due to changes in family life. These changes
may include death, divorce or separation. New partnerships create new children. The new children and their relatives become part of your
blended family. Some people are born into a stepfamily.
My relatives Relationship to I usually call
Me
male female him... her...
parent relative of whom I Father, Daddy, Dad, Papa Mother, Mummy, Mum, Mommy, Mom, Mama, Ma
am the child
father mother
sibling we have the same first name; sometimes Bro first name; sometimes Sis
father and mother
brother sister
uncle aunt sibling of my Uncle [first name] Aunt/Auntie [first name]
parent
grandparent parent of my Grandfather, Grandpa Grandmother, Grandma
parent
grandfather grandmother
cousin child of my uncle first name
or aunt
spouse relative to whom I first name
am married
husband wife
child relative of whom I first name
am the parent
son daughter
nephew niece child of my sibling first name

2. grandchild child of my child first name
grandson granddaughter
great grandfather great parent of my Great Grandpa Great Grandma
grandmother grandparent
father-in-law mother in-law parent of my first name; Dad first name; Mum, Mom
spouse
brother-in-law sister in-law sibling of my first name
spouse; spouse of
my sibling
exhusband exwife my previous first name
spouse (we
divorced)
half-brother half-sister my sibling born to first name
my father or
mother but not
both
step-parent new spouse of one first name
of my parents
step-father step-mother
step-child child of my spouse first name
but not of me
step-son step-daughter
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