family loyalty
Blood before others
Family loyalty is commitment to supporting and prioritizing one's relatives, often regardless of circumstances.
It implies standing by family members during difficulties, keeping family matters private, and placing family interests above outside relationships or personal preferences: Family loyalty kept him from testifying against his brother.
The concept can be admired as devotion or criticized when it shields wrongdoing.
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- kinshipState of being related
- blood is thickerKin bonds trump friendships
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
filial piety · lineage · respect for elders · devotion · blood ties · betrayal · black sheep · responsibility · omertà · no snitching · support · vengeance · respect · sacrifice · accountability · ride or die · Confucian values · integrity
- family obligationschildcare, eldercare, caregiving, financial support, emotional support
- filial pietyhonoring parents, obedience, respect for elders, gratitude, elder care
- loyalty typespatriotism
- family bondslove, parent-child bond, trust, sibling bond, marriage
- family dramasibling rivalry, kinship, parent-child, inheritance, estrangement
- SouthernSouthern belles, sweet tea, front porch, grits, y'all
family loyaltynational loyalty
Devotion to one's country
patriotism · company loyalty · party loyalty · religious devotion · tribal loyalty
family loyaltyfamily betrayal
Disloyalty among kin
treachery · abandonment · patricide · fratricide · estrangement
family loyaltyradical individualism
Belief in absolute personal sovereignty
self-interest · personal autonomy · independence · self-reliance · going one's own way