family membership
Part of kin
Family membership is the state of belonging to a family unit, whether by birth, marriage, adoption, or mutual recognition.
The term appears in legal, institutional, and social contexts: Family membership in the club includes spouse and children under eighteen.
It can also describe the felt sense of inclusion in a family: His family membership was never in doubt, even though he was adopted.
- kinshipState of being related
- belongingState of fitting in
- householdDomestic unit of residents
- relativesThose connected by blood
- blood relativesFamily by birth
next of kin · clan · tribe · bond · bloodline · inheritance · lineage · dynasty · inclusion · inner circle · circle · ties · roots · ancestry · kin · relations · connection · loyalty
- membershipsannual fee, initiation fee, renewal notice, guest pass, guest passes
family membershipfriendship
Bond of mutual affection
acquaintanceship · citizenship · club membership · national identity · business partnership
family membershipestrangement
Emotional separation between people
disownment · orphanhood · abandonment · disinheritance · banishment
family membershipsocial isolation
Lack of human contact
individual autonomy · rootlessness · disconnection · aloneness · independence
family, families, familial, familiar, familiarity, familiarize, unfamiliar, member, members