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Gender-Neutral Kinship Term: Meaning and Examples

A gender-neutral kinship term describes a family relationship without identifying gender, such as parent, sibling, child, spouse, or grandparent.

An intimate partner is a current or former romantic, emotional, or sexual partner, including a spouse, dating partner, lover, or domestic partner.

Marriage is a socially, culturally, religiously, or legally recognized union that may establish partnership, family, and mutual responsibilities.

Marry means to become another person’s spouse or to conduct a marriage ceremony. It may also mean combining two ideas or qualities closely.

Married means joined to another person through marriage and may describe a person, couple, relationship, legal status, or shared married life.

Spouse means a person’s husband, wife, or gender-neutral married partner and may involve legal, emotional, domestic, and intimate partnership.