Exempel på blood ties

• Blood ties and gender roles : adult children who care for aged parents.

• Igbo political structure was largely defined by blood ties with which some patrilineal links could be established.

• If civil disputes could not be resolved through networks of local ties, blood ties or occupational groups, then people sought judgement by the state.

• Naturally parents wished to bequeath the household headship to those with whom they had blood ties, even if it were a daughter.

• Many early factory owners, especially in textiles, had strong blood ties to some of their workers for several generations.

• These are a continuing commitment to the notion of family alongside and indeed intertwined with a commitment to blood ties.

• The fate of infertile women is indicative, as they remain isolated within the group, unable to forge blood ties with it.

• What this seems to suggest to us is that however loose-knit the network of the new extended family, the availability of care and support will depend on generational blood ties.

• This situation stems from the basic rules for family allowances which are founded on blood ties; moral considerations are not involved.

• This situation is a consequence of defining the family unit on the basis of blood ties.

• That perhaps shows that the objections are based not just on blood ties, but on the very nature of the parent-child relationship.

• Blood binds these people together and blood ties cannot be broken by any laws.

• The tighter the blood ties are between the donor and the receiver, the better it is for compatibility, siblings for example.

• The use of credit began in the form of blood ties but later led to the emergence the banker as a profession.

• In this context, "frith" goes further than expressing blood ties, and encompasses all the concomitant benefits and duties which kinship engenders.