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Family of Pope Leo XIV
Family of Pope Leo XIV: the Chicago Prevost family of Robert Francis Prevost, first American pope elected 8 May 2025. Parents Louis Marius Prevost and Mildred Agnes Martinez, brothers Louis Martin and John Joseph, maternal roots in New Orleans and Haiti.
Family tree
A family tree, or genealogical tree, is a diagram showing relationships among family members across generations, also called a kinship diagram in anthropology and a pedigree in medicine.
Family tree of Muhammad
Family tree of Muhammad: his Banu Hashim lineage of Quraysh traced to Adnan (agreed) and to Isma'il (disputed), his relatives, wives, children, and the sayyid/sharif descendants through Fatimah.
Family values
Family values: beliefs about marriage, children, intergenerational duty, and gender roles, also a political idiom. Surveys in the US, China, and 114 countries consistently rank family the top personal value.
Father absence
Father absence: a child living apart from the biological father due to divorce, nonmarital birth, death, or migration. Research links it to worse education, mental health, and behavior, with smaller effects in rigorous causal designs.
Foster care
Foster care is the temporary placement of children with trained foster families when parents cannot care for them, aiming at reunification, adoption, or guardianship. Rooted in 19th-century placing-out systems, it is studied as outperforming institutional care and faces carer shortages in England and reforms in the US and Australia.
Frances Shand Kydd
Frances Shand Kydd, born Frances Ruth Burke Roche (1936-2004), mother of Diana, Princess of Wales; married the 8th Earl Spencer then Peter Shand Kydd, converted to Catholicism, and died on Seil Island, Scotland.
Freud family
The Freud family, the Central European Jewish family of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): Galician-Moravian merchant origins, Vienna household with Martha Bernays, Minna Bernays, and six children, the 1938 flight to London, Holocaust losses, and the family's archives and museum legacy.
Genealogy
Genealogy, the study of family ancestry and descent, spans paper, microfilm, digital, and DNA eras; now a billion-dollar hobby using consumer DNA tests and investigative genetic genealogy in criminal cases.
Generation
Generation, in kinship, is the level of descent shared by relatives of the same degree, also a demographic cohort of roughly 30 years. It underlies generational (Hawaiian) kinship terminology, Kirchhoff's generation principle, and alternate-generation equations.
Genetic sexual attraction
Genetic sexual attraction (GSA) describes intense attraction between biological relatives reunited after early separation, coined by Barbara Gonyo; reported in over 50% of adoption reunions but not a recognized disorder.
Genogram
Genogram: a clinical family diagram adding relationship, health, and behavioral patterns to a family tree. Rooted in Bowen's family systems theory; standardized by McGoldrick and Gerson (1985); distinct from pedigree and ecomap.
George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon
George Herbert, 8th Earl of Carnarvon (born 1956), British peer and farmer, owner of Highclere Castle, the Downton Abbey filming location; succeeded his father Henry, 7th Earl, in 2001; married Fiona Aitken in 1999.
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (1904–1965), American socialite, second wife of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt and mother of designer Gloria Vanderbilt, who lost custody of her daughter in the sensational 1934 "trial of the century" in New York.
Godparent
Godparent: a baptismal sponsor creating spiritual kinship with a child and the child's parents; also called fictive kinship or, in Latin America, compadrazgo. First mentioned by Tertullian; parents were barred from sponsoring their own children by the eighth century.
Goler clan
Goler clan: poor rural families on South Mountain, Nova Scotia, near Wolfville, descended from War of 1812 Black refugees named Gold. In 1984 a teenage girl's disclosure exposed generations of incest and child abuse; sixteen adults were jailed, and the case produced R. v. Johnstone, Johnstone and Goler (1986) and the book On South Mountain.
Gotra (गोत्र)
Gotra (गोत्र) is the Hindu patrilineal exogamous clan, traced to a common male ancestor, regulating marriage via gotra and pravara rules alongside the sapinda bar; same-gotra marriage is legal under the Hindu Marriage Act 1955.
Gould family
Gould family: American dynasty of Gilded Age financier Jay Gould (1836–1892), his wife Helen Day Miller, and their six children including George Jay Gould, Helen Gould Shepard, and Anna Gould, duchess de Talleyrand-Périgord.
Grace Ingalls
Grace Pearl Ingalls Dow (1877–1941), youngest Ingalls sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder, born in Burr Oak, Iowa; teacher, journalist, wife of Nathan Dow; "Baby Grace" of the Little House books.
Grandparent
Grandparent: parent of one's mother or father, a kinship role spanning caregiving, demography, and culture. Median age at grandparenthood is 49 (US women); grandparent life stage lasts 21-35 years.
Guinness family
The Guinness family, an Anglo-Irish Protestant brewing dynasty founded by Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), who leased Dublin's St. James's Gate Brewery in 1759; seven generations led the brewery before the 1997 Diageo merger, while gaining earldoms and philanthropic fame.
Hamida al-Attas (حميدة العطاس)
Hamida al-Attas (حميدة العطاس), Syrian-born mother of Osama bin Laden; married Mohammed bin Laden in Latakia in 1956, divorced, remarried Muhammad al-Attas, and raised Osama in her second household.
Hamilton family
The Hamilton family is an American family of Scottish origin best known for Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father and the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Handmaiden
Handmaiden (also handmaid): an old-fashioned English word for a female servant, and in formal use a thing that supports something else, as in mathematics the handmaiden of the sciences; also the title of Park Chan-wook's 2016 film adapted from Fingersmith.
Harem (حريم)
Harem (حريم, ḥarīm), from Arabic for something forbidden or sacred: the women of a Muslim household and the secluded quarters reserved for them; also the Ottoman imperial harem, a powerful political and training institution ended by the Turkish Republic.
Harilal Gandhi
Harilal Mohandas Gandhi (June 1888 – 18 June 1948), eldest son of Mahatma and Kasturba Gandhi, satyagraha leader in South Africa, estranged from his father, converted to Islam as Abdulla in 1936, died of tuberculosis in Bombay.
Hilton family
The Hilton family: American dynasty of hotelier Conrad N. Hilton (1887–1979), founder of Hilton Hotels and the Hilton Foundation; son Barron sold the hotel business to Blackstone in 2007; Paris Hilton is a great-granddaughter.
Hindu joint family
Hindu joint family: a patrilineal Hindu household and legal entity holding coparcenary property under Mitakshara and Dayabhaga law, reformed by the Hindu Succession Acts of 1956 and 2005.
Hotung family
Hotung family (何东家族), prominent Hong Kong Eurasian merchant dynasty descended from trader Walter Bosman. Patriarch Sir Robert Ho Tung (1862-1956), 'grand old man of Hong Kong'; descendants include Eric and Sir Joseph Hotung, major philanthropists.
Household
Household, in census statistics, is all people occupying one housing unit as their usual residence; distinct from family, which requires two related members. Definitions vary between housekeeping and dwelling concepts, and U.S. composition has shifted toward one-person households.