family ties
Connections through blood
Family ties are the bonds and relationships connecting members of a family—by blood, marriage, or adoption.
The phrase emphasizes obligation and emotional connection: She moved back home because of strong family ties.
Family ties can be a source of support or constraint, depending on context.
He cut his family ties after years of conflict.
- kinshipState of being related
- blood relativesFamily by birth
- bondsTies that unite
- relativesThose connected by blood
- next of kinNearest living family members
bloodline · loyalty · ancestry · roots · generations · heritage · closeness · siblings · parents · belonging · home · gatherings · Sunday dinners · traditions · lineage · connection · clan · dynasty
- bondsbond, corporate bond, corporate bonds, government bond, municipal bond
- communityneighbors, neighborliness, neighborhoods, kinship, community centers
- Family Quotesparental love, sibling love
- homesicknesshomesick, homesickness, missing home, longing, yearning
- story bondsfriendship, love story, love triangle, enemies to lovers, forbidden love
- Pacific MigrationPacific Islanders, chain migration, economic migration, labor migration, migratory patterns
family tiesestrangement
Emotional separation between people
isolation · alienation · rootlessness · disconnection · disownment
family tiesindividualism
Doctrine of personal independence
independence · personal autonomy · self-interest · civic duty · self-reliance
family, families, familial, familiar, familiarity, familiarize, unfamiliar, tie, ties