Family overview

Overview of kinship, blood kinship is based on marriage and legal fiction and formation of social relationships. Adjustment of China\'s legal family includes spouses, parents, children, siblings, grandparents and grandparents, grandchildren, and maternal grandchildren, daughter-in-law and mother-in-law, son-in-law and his wife\'s parents, as well as others within three generations of blood, like Bo, uncle, aunt, uncle, aunt, nephew child, niece children, cousins and sisters, cousins and sisters. Is not equal to the members of the family of a relative, person have relatives may belong to many different families; kinship in the family members are not absolute.

Based on reason kinship, affinity affinity spouses, blood relatives can be divided into three categories. Blood including natural blood affinity intended system blood, former is means for same ancestors has blood contact of relatives; which is means each other this no the species blood should has of blood relationship, but legal due to its meet must of conditions, confirmed its and the species blood has equal right and obligations of relatives, as following parents and by its dependency education of following children, and raising parents and raising children Zhijian is intended system blood. Is apart from the spouse to the marriage relationship as in-laws of intermediaries and relatives, including blood, spouse, spouse\'s blood relatives, spouse of the spouse of blood, only between the in-laws have rights and obligations under special provisions of the law.

Blood can also be divided into lineal blood kinship and consanguinity, refers to the birth of the former of themselves and their birth relatives generations; the latter refers to each other with indirect blood contact, relatives except for lineal blood kinship.