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To tie the knot
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To get married
To wear the pants
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To be in control and make decisions in family or relationship
A breadwinner
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A person who financially provides for the family
Born with a silver spoon
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Born into a wealthy and privileged family
To elope
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To get married in secret
A nuclear family
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A couple and their dependent children
A sugar daddy
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Usually older man who supports or spends lavishly on mistress, girlfriend or boyfriend
To pop the question
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To propose marriage
An ancestor
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A person related to you who lived a long time ago
Maiden name
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The family name a woman has before she gets married
A bachelor
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A man who is not and has never been married
An heir
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A person who will receive money or a title from another person when that person dies
To follow in someone's footsteps
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To do the same job or thing as someone else, esp member of your family
To run in the family
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For the quality, ability or disease to occur in many members of the family
Blood is thicker than water
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Said to emphasize that you belive that family connections are always more important than other types of relationships
To be like chalk and cheese
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To be completely different from each other, have nothing in common
To bring home the bacon
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To earn money for a family to live on
To get on like a house on fire
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To like each other very much and become friends very quickly
A godparent
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A peroson who presents a child at baptism
To grow out of something
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To become too old or too mature for something
To be in somebody's blood
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For an ability or skill to occur in someone naturally, usually because it already exists in their family
Accident of birth
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Luck in something due to family good fortune
To foster
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To take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent
Father figure
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A mentor, a person who offers guidance
Up the duff
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Pregnant, usually without it being planned
In-laws
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Spouse's parents
Hereditary
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Characteristics or diseases passed from the genes of parent to a child
A spoilt child
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A child who shows bad behaviour because they have been allowed to do or have anything they want
Family gathering
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An informal event where family members meet up
Generation gap
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A difference of opinions between one generation and another
Dynasty
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A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
Broken home
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A family in which the parents have separated or divorced
Descendant
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Someone who is related to a person who lived a long time ago
Extended family
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A family group that consists not only of parents but also grandparents, aunts etc
Kinship
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A family relationship or a strong connection between people
Matriarch
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A woman, especially older, who controls a family or a social group
Surrogate mother
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A woman who has a baby for another woman who cannot have one
Mum's the word
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"Be quiet", "Don't tell anyone"
Bad blood
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Feeling of hatred between relatives because of disputes in the past
Marriage of convenience
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Marriage entered into for a personal or family advantage
Like father, like son
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Used for saying that a man or boy has the same attitude as his father
To rule the roost
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To be in charge, make all decisions
Helicopter parenting
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Overattentive child-raising
Shack up
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To live together as unmarried sexual partners
Estranged
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No longer living with their partner
Distant relative
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A relative who is not closely related to you
Baptism
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The sacrament of cleansing from original sin
An infant
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A child during the first year of life
Overprotective
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Having a tendency to protect someone excessuvely
Authoritative parenting
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A parenting where parents set firm limits for their children
Heritage
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Property that descends to an heir
The apple of someone's eye
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A person or thing that someone loves very much
An insemination
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The introduction of semen into a woman by natural or artificial means
To be named after someone
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To have a name that was inspired by an older member of the family
Orphan
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A child whose parents are dead
Genealogy
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The study of family history and lineage
To be with child
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Old-fashioned way of saying that someone is pregnant
A prenuptial agreement prenup
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A legal document signed by 2 people before thay marry stating what will happen to their possesions if they divorce
Joint family
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A family structure in which grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins are considered as a single unit living in one house
An upbringing
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The treatment and instruction received by a child from its parents throughout its childhood

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