The maternal uncle might come and take the nephew out of his paternal household.
Her nephew's wife had come up to help her after the fall and would come up again to get her settled into residential care.
When a nephew was a suitor as well as a dependant, he worked even more for his uncle.
The relationships with nieces and nephews of those survivors who had married but had no children seemed to be associated with considerations of inheritance.
Only two survivors claimed in 1999 to see a niece or nephew weekly.
He had no phone but went to the pay phone to call his nephew every week.
Within these categories, patterns of relationships with children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews are described.
The bachelor uncle cares about his nieces and nephews.
This system may allow more variations in the disposal of assets, since more kin categories, such as siblings, grandchildren, nephews and nieces, are often beneficiaries.
In the last group, the carers were a neighbour, a son, a son and daughter-in-law, and a nephew and a niece.
In these cases, nieces and nephews seem to substitute for the absence of nearby daughters or sons.
The first is that in the hypothetical, both nephews are children.
In regard to older people, these included only adult children, and not siblings, nieces or nephews, or grandchildren.
A third family linked to the nephew's family by marriage came.
The old man, an arm encircling his nephew's shoulder and a hand enclosing his small bare feet, draws him into a shared intimacy.
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