Sentences with phrase «kin ties»

Also the effect of paternity uncertainty may weaken the bond between paternal siblings, making individuals unconsciously prefer their genetically more certain and maternal kin ties over less certain and paternal kin ties (Laham et al., 2005).

At the meeting of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Poland last year, Paul Mathews and Rebecca Sear of the London School of Economics reported that women in the UK are more likely to start a family if they have strong kin ties, particularly if the relatives live within 80 kilometres and are in regular contact.

We really need a model that supports the maintenance of kin ties as much as much as possible rather than favoring stranger adoption.

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It was a revelation to me that tied God's chosen people to their spiritual next of kin — the disciples of the Risen Christ.»

If the collision of Madeleine with George's kin or the tragedy that re-ties the ties that bind seem contrived, consider that the film is possibly best read as a drama writ large on a Southern canvas, one splashed, like the Ann Wood paintings produced especially for the film, with the ghosts of slavery and the Civil War.

- Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West «Like absolutely nothing I've read before, Levinson's brilliantly unsettling, fiercely funny novel takes on both dangerous intolerance in the near - future world, and in the confines of one wildly destructive family, where ties tighten like nooses and kith and kin can become like warring political systems.

Strictly, in a formal introduction, a person could give the entire list of their names and ties to validate their status — all their own designations, titles and accomplishments, and all their kin and their relationships, along with their titles and accomplishments — and some did.

Long heralded as a strength of African - American and other minority families, the use of relatives and fictive kin (unrelated persons with whom family has a close relationship) as caregivers for children is an important measure for increasing permanency for minority children while simultaneously maintaining ties to their family system.

In order to comply with the registration test, native title claimants are forced to find ways of expressing extended kin relationships that do not correlate with the traditional Western definitions based on marriage and blood ties.