Questions tagged [family]

For any issues related to family or families, whether it is the questioner's family or someone else's family. (Can be used for questions relating to gatherings for families.)

This tag should be used for any issues related to family or families whether it is the questioner's family or someone else's family. It can be used for questions relating to gatherings for families. This tag encompasses all familial relations (biological, step, in-law, honorary).

Examples of family members include:

  • Parents
  • Siblings
  • Cousins
  • Aunts/Uncles
  • Descendants

Some of these have their own tags, like , , , , and .

A family is a group of people who are related to each other either biologically or legally through a marriage. Sometimes family titles are bestowed honorarily on very close friends (for example, a child my call a close friend of their parents "aunt" or "uncle" despite not being related by blood). There are two classifications for people who are related legally through a marriage. Relatives of one's spouse are considered family "in-law". For a person who has married, the spouse's children from a previous relationship are referred to as "stepchildren" (and the person would be a step-parent to those children). For a child whose parent has married someone who is not their biological parent, the step-parent's relatives are also called step-relatives (step-grandparent, step-cousin, etc).

Should be used with another descriptive tag for context e.g. or

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How to prevent family from treating you like a child?

I am 24 years old, financially independent for the last 5 years and I live on my own as well. I'm a straight A student, happily engaged. Yet all members of my family communicate to me like I'm a little child. My parents only got over it that I am…
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How can you respond to the situation where you're expected to guide a younger nephew for X and you're not familiar with X?

I've had an extremely limited life and a broken childhood. At my late 30s, I'm now finally doing things/learning stuff that people did in their teens. Almost everyone else around me has a hell of a lot more experience in their lives. There's a close…
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How can I change the relationship better with my mom, if she feels happy that I fail?

I had some arguments with my mom before, such as, when she invested in stocks, she just guessed and listened to the radio, or watched TV. And then I asked her, if she knew what P/E ratio was, so that she could at least use it as some rudimentary…
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How to deal with parents political views?

I've grown up valuing democracy, liberties, and a trust in science. In Europe, among those lucky enough to be well-educated, my political views are quite average. Obviously, these views were seeded by my parents. In recent years, as they approached…
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Should I have gotten up for my sister?

Me and my sister have a relationship that goes up and down, sometimes we can go through one door and sometimes definitely not.... Right now its somewhere in the middle mostly because we don't see each other all the time any more, not a bad thing per…
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