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Regina Louise
Regina Louise, American author and foster care advocate, memoirist of Somebody's Someone (2003) and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe (2018), adopted at 41 by the counselor once barred from adopting her, subject of the 2019 Lifetime film I Am Somebody's Child.
Remarriage
Remarriage is marriage after divorce or widowhood. About 40% of new U.S. marriages are remarriages; they divorce more often than first marriages, often form stepfamilies, and favor men's remarriage rates.
Roommate
Roommate: a person sharing living space with a non-family co-tenant, mainly to cut housing costs. Covers the economics of shared rents, college roommate matching, and the matching-theory roommate problem.
Saloth family
Saloth family (Loth family), the family of Pol Pot (Saloth Sar), Khmer Rouge ruler of Democratic Kampuchea 1975-1979: prosperous Kampong Thom peasants with royal-palace ties, siblings Saloth Nhep, Seng, Chhay, Roeung, Suong, and nephew Saloth Ban, ECCC witness.
Sandwich generation
Sandwich generation: middle-aged adults simultaneously caring for aging parents and their own children; term coined in the 1980s for Baby Boomers; about a quarter of U.S. adults now qualify per Pew.
Sarah Knox Davis
Sarah Knox Taylor Davis (1814–1835), daughter of future president Zachary Taylor, was the first wife of Jefferson Davis, dying of fever three months after their marriage.
Saroo Brierley
Saroo Brierley (Saroo Munshi Khan), Indian-born Australian lost at age 5 on a train near Khandwa in 1986, adopted in Tasmania, and reunited with his mother in 2012 after locating his hometown via Google Earth; memoir A Long Way Home inspired the film Lion.
Senpai and kōhai
Senpai (先輩) and kōhai (後輩) are Japanese senior–junior relationship roles based on time of entry into a school, company, or club, not age or rank; same-year members are doki. Central to Japanese hierarchy, language use, and mentoring, with related forms in China and Korea.
Sibling
Sibling: a brother or sister sharing at least one parent, including full, half, step, and adoptive siblings. 82.22% of US youth lived with a sibling in 2010; warmth, low conflict, and equal treatment predict better mental health.
Sibling relationship
Sibling relationship: the emotional bond between brothers and sisters, often a person's longest close relationship. Covers what shapes its quality (attachment, parental differential treatment), links to child psychopathology, adult outcomes, twins, only children, and the life course.
Sibling-in-law
Sibling-in-law: a relative of one's generation connected by marriage, either a spouse's sibling or a sibling's spouse; gendered forms brother-in-law and sister-in-law; extended sense covers a spouse's sibling's spouse (co-sibling-in-law).
Siemens family
Siemens family, German industrial dynasty of Werner von Siemens (1816–1892), founder of Siemens & Halske (1847). Brothers Carl and William ran St. Petersburg and London subsidiaries; family controlled the firm into the postwar era and retains about 6% of Siemens AG.
Simone and Malcolm Collins
Simone and Malcolm Collins are American pronatalist advocates, founders of the Pronatalist Foundation and hosts of the podcast Based Camp, known for IVF with embryo IQ screening, Techno-Puritanism, Trump administration policy drafts, and the Hope Not Hate city-state proposal.
Single parent
Single parent: a person raising children without a co-resident spouse or partner, also called lone parent. Definitions vary by agency; about 25% of US children and 10-25% of OECD children live in single-parent households.
Single person
Single person: an unpartnered adult, often in a one-person household. Distinguished from living alone, social isolation, and loneliness; US one-person households reached 29% in 2025.
Social structure of China
Social structure of China (中国社会结构): the organized pattern of families, classes, urban-rural groups, and institutions in Chinese society, marked by shrinking households, hukou-based urban-rural division, a pyramid-shaped stratum structure, rapid urbanization, and population aging.
Sociology of the family
Sociology of the family: sociological study of the family as a social institution, using functionalist, conflict, symbolic interactionist, and feminist perspectives; covers Parsons, Goode, industrialization, and family diversity.
Stanley Armour Dunham
Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992), Barack Obama's maternal grandfather, Kansas-born WWII Army sergeant under Patton, furniture salesman, who with wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama in Honolulu from age ten.
Stay-at-home mother
Stay-at-home mother: a mother not employed for pay outside the home, also called homemaker or housewife. In 2012, 29% of U.S. mothers (10.4 million) were at home; 34% lived in poverty.
Storge (στοργή)
Storge (στοργή) is the Ancient Greek word for natural, instinctive family affection, from the verb stergo; rare in antiquity, absent as a simple noun from the New Testament, and popularized by C. S. Lewis's The Four Loves.
Susan Alice Buffett
Susan Alice Buffett (born 1953, Omaha) is Warren Buffett's eldest child, chair of the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and Sherwood Foundation, founder of the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, and a Berkshire Hathaway director.
Susan Berman
Susan Berman was an American journalist and author, best known for her memoir Easy Street and being murdered in 2000, for which Robert Durst was convicted in 2021.
Tad Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (1853–1871), youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, was the mischievous White House child who survived the 1862 typhoid fever that killed Willie, and died at 18 in Chicago, probably of pneumonia.
Teji Bachchan (तेजी बच्चन)
Teji Bachchan (तेजी बच्चन), born Teji Suri (1914–2007), was an Indian psychology lecturer, stage actor, and social activist, wife of poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, mother of Amitabh Bachchan, and close friend of Indira Gandhi.
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action (Moynihan Report) is a March 1965 U.S. Department of Labor report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan arguing that weak family structure in the urban black poor perpetuates poverty.
Thomas Francis and Ruth Reardon O'Brien
Thomas Francis and Ruth Reardon O'Brien, parents of Conan O'Brien: a Harvard microbiologist and pioneer on antimicrobial resistance, and the second woman partner at Ropes & Gray; married 66 years, died three days apart in December 2024.
Tiger parenting
Tiger parenting, popularized by Amy Chua's 2011 Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, is strict, achievement-focused childrearing: high monitoring, moderate hostility, low warmth. Research finds it is uncommon among Asian American families and yields worse mental-health outcomes than supportive or authoritative parenting.
Tolstoy family
The Tolstoy family is a Russian noble family with ancestry to the fourteenth century, best known through Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910), his 48-year marriage to Sofia Tolstaya, their 13 children, and descendants maintaining Yasnaya Polyana.
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, an English compound surname joining the Twisleton, Wykeham, and Fiennes lines, tied to the barony of Saye and Sele, Broughton Castle, and to explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes.
Uncle
Uncle: in English, the brother of a parent and, by extension, the husbands of parent's sisters. The word's coverage across kinship systems (Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Sudanese, Crow, Omaha) shows how languages merge or distinguish father's brother, mother's brother, and affinal uncles.