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Housekeeping
Housekeeping is the statistical concept defining a household by shared domestic management (eating, production, consumption) rather than shared dwelling space; it underpins census definitions of households and families and the comparative measurement of family structure.
Housing for the Elderly
Housing for the Elderly: housing arrangements for older adults fostering independent living (group homes, small apartments, CCRCs), distinct from supervised homes for the aged; covers US policy history, costs, design, and aging in place.
Immediate family
Immediate family: the closest circle of relatives, usually spouse, parents, and children. No single legal definition exists; US labor, criminal, immigration, state, Canadian, and Australian rules each define it differently.
Incest between twins
Incest between twins: sexual activity or marriage between co-twin siblings, treated under general sibling incest law. Covers Balinese and Zulu twin beliefs, the Westermarck effect, the 2008 co-twin marriage case, genetic risks, and legal status.
Incest taboo
Incest taboo is a cultural rule prohibiting sexual relations or marriage between close relatives. It exists in every human society, though its scope varies widely.
International adoption of South Korean children
International adoption of South Korean children: roughly 200,000 children sent abroad since 1953, the world's largest intercountry adoptee diaspora. Also known as Korean overseas adoption or 해외입양. Marked by the 1961 orphan law, falsified records, a 2025 truth commission finding of state responsibility, and Hague Convention ratification effective October 1, 2025.
Jack Reagan
John Edward "Jack" Reagan (1883–1941), Illinois shoe salesman and father of President Ronald Reagan and Neil Reagan; Catholic Democrat, WPA local director, alcoholic whose porch incident shaped his son's memoirs.
James Ogilvy
James Ogilvy (James Robert Bruce Ogilvy, b. 1964, Thatched House Lodge) is a British landscape designer, photographer, and founder of Luxury Briefing; eldest child of Princess Alexandra and Sir Angus Ogilvy, untitled, 58th in line of succession, married to Julia Rawlinson since 1988.
Jamie Spears
Jamie Spears (James P. Spears) is the father of Britney Spears who served as conservator of her estate from 2008 to 2021, controlling her $60m fortune, was suspended in September 2021, and settled related disputes in April 2024.
Japanese family
Japanese family (家族, kazoku): family as a social and legal institution in Japan. Defined by the ie system abolished in 1947, nuclear-family and single-person households now dominate, with 50.3% of households including someone aged 65 or over.
Japanese funeral
Japanese funeral: the Buddhist-style wake (tsuya), funeral service, near-universal cremation (99.97%), kotsuage bone-picking, and 49-day mourning rites, plus Shinto, Catholic, and secular variants and a 1.83-trillion-yen funeral industry.
Jessie Harlan Lincoln
Jessie Harlan Lincoln (1875–1948), also Jessie Lincoln Beckwith Johnson Randolph, second daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln and granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln; mother of Peggy Beckwith and Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, the last undisputed Lincoln descendant.
John Jacob Astor VI
John Jacob Astor VI (1912–1992), "Jakey", the Titanic Baby, was the posthumous son of John Jacob Astor IV and Madeleine Force; born August 14, 1912, he was half-brother to Vincent Astor, married four times, and died in Miami Beach.
Kennedy curse
Kennedy curse: popular label for the deaths and scandals of the Kennedy political family, coined by media after Ted Kennedy's 1969 Chappaquiddick accident; covers Joe Jr.'s 1944 death, the JFK and RFK assassinations, and later tragedies, though skeptics call it a media myth.
Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man, the Ancient One to five Columbia Plateau tribes, is a roughly 8,500-year-old adult male skeleton found in 1996 in the Columbia River, Washington. His 2015 genome showed Native American ancestry, closest to the Colville, leading to NAGPRA repatriation and reburial in 2017.
Kinship
Kinship: the culturally recognized web of relationships based on descent, marriage, and created ties; central topic of anthropology from Morgan's 1871 terminology classification through Schneider's 1984 critique to new kinship studies.
Kinship care
Kinship care, also called family and friends care, is the raising of children by relatives or close family friends rather than parents. It spans informal, voluntary, and formal arrangements; about 141,000 children in England and Wales live in it, and outcomes beat unrelated foster care but trail the general population.
Ko Yong Suk (고용숙)
Ko Yong Suk (고용숙) is Kim Jong Un's maternal aunt, sister of Ko Yong Hui, who cared for him in Switzerland and defected to the United States via the Geneva embassy in May 1998, later suing defectors over claims about her family.
Korean War orphans
Korean War orphans were the roughly 100,000 children left parentless by the Korean War, a crisis that led South Korea to begin overseas adoption in 1954.
Lady Sarah McCorquodale
Lady Sarah McCorquodale (Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale, born 1955) is the eldest sister of Diana, Princess of Wales, co-executor of her will, former Memorial Fund president, and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 2009.
Latchkey kid
Latchkey kid, also latchkey child, is a school-age child home alone after school because parents work. Term recorded from 1944-45 wartime usage; label for Generation X; research finds few consistent harms.
Leigh Anne Tuohy
Leigh Anne Tuohy, Memphis interior designer and philanthropist whose family took in Michael Oher, inspiring The Blind Side; subject of the 2023 conservatorship dispute and head of the Making It Happen Foundation.
Levirate marriage
Levirate marriage, also called widow inheritance, is the custom whereby a widow marries her deceased husband's brother, keeping her and her children within his family's lineage.
Li Na (李讷) (daughter of Mao Zedong)
Li Na (李讷), born August 1940 in Yan'an, is the only daughter of Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing. A Peking University history graduate, she ran the PLA Daily as "Xiao Li" in the Cultural Revolution, held Beijing-area party posts, and later served as a CPPCC member.
Lidiya Pereprygina (Лидия Платоновна Перепрыгина)
Lidiya Platonovna Pereprygina (Лидия Платоновна Перепрыгина), born 1900, Siberian peasant linked to Joseph Stalin during his 1914–1916 Kureika exile; mother by him, per 1956 KGB and party documents, of Alexander Davydov; details disputed.
List of people with the most children
People with the most children: the first Mrs Vassilyev (Shuya, Russia) holds the Guinness record with 69 children in 27 confinements; Geraldine Brodrick and Halima Cissé share the single-birth record of nine.
List of sibling groups
Sibling group: a set of people sharing a parent, studied as a sibship, kept together in foster care placement, or performing as a sibling pop act such as Akdong Musician and the DeFranco Family.
List of youngest parents
List of youngest parents: documents record early parenthood, led by Lina Medina of Peru, youngest confirmed mother (born May 1939 at age 5 years 7 months 21 days, cesarean son Gerardo), plus unconfirmed youngest-father cases and global adolescent birth-rate context.
Louisa Durrell
Louisa Florence Durrell (née Dixie), Anglo-Irish matriarch born in British India, widowed 1928, moved her family from Bournemouth to Corfu in 1935; mother of Lawrence and Gerald Durrell, later portrayed by Keeley Hawes in ITV's The Durrells.
Lyle Stevik
Lyle Stevik is the alias of a man found at Lake Quinault Inn, Amanda Park, Washington, in 2001. He was identified by genetic genealogy in 2018.