Talk:Fictive kinship

message: Developed in 1995? The term fictive kin has been around long before then. --Gbleem 01:42, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Long before then

message: I can't add it as it would be original research but there might be more on it out there. My family are Dutch Jews and as such large portions of our extended family were killed during the Holocaust. I was raised to call a number of people aunt/uncle who were either only very distantly related or not all. This went beyond using aunt/uncle as terms of respect. The explanation was always that there were so few Jews left after the war that this was the closest we had to family so we might as well consider it the same as actual family. jdevries (talk) 14:23, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  another example 

message: "Fictive kinship is also known as relatedness. " someone please explain this. --Gbleem 14:58, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  relatedness 

message: "The term has such a broad usage as to suggest that it might be spurious" What is the intended meaning here? The term "fictive kinship" is not in broad usage. What is being described as spurious - the term "fictive kinship", the kinship..? Why does its broad usage imply spuriousness? Mutt Lunker (talk) 16:32, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The term has such a broad usage... 

message: One sentence/paragraph that uses this term is as follows
A noted Gurung tradition is the institution of "Rodi" where teenagers form fictive kinship bonds and become Rodi members to socialize, perform communal tasks, and find marriage partners.
Shouldn't this information include a footnote to cite the source?
Ed8r (talk) 18:30, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gurung unsourced 

message: Fictive Kinship is a major aspect of Christianity.  God is "Father"; Jesus is "Brother"; and all members are "family"...  Referring to members of a congregation as "Brother So-and-So" or "Sister This-or-That" is extremely common.  Something should be done about adding this into the article.  Perhaps in other religious traditions this happens as well...  How about in the Buddhist Sangha? 
Emyth (talk) 20:07, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian Usage  

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replies: text: Isn't it more obvious that the Americans that Schneider investigated value themselves - in a growingly selfish society - or their children more and that is why they do not value their (other) relatives more than before? Rather than suddenly, out of the blue, they'd simply stopped valuing their kindred? There is no criticism nor even interpretation of both claims or even data, and they both contradict what people individually know to be their case? If it were true that people don't value, naturally and intrinsically rather than as part of a culture, kin above nurturing, then how are there people who claim that is true, how could they do that themselves as they do in the first place? 193.126.164.147 (talk) 02:55, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of NPOV tag 

message: "The children are normally treated as the adopters' biological kin" - Uncritical, spurious statement - abuse and othering of both foster and adoptive kids are quite common lol. Avoid conflating wishful thinking/societal expectation with what happens in real life.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.168.37.85 (talk) 01:52, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  section on adoptive/foster fictive kin