词汇 | sons-in-law |
释义 | sons-in-law plural ofson-in-law Examples of sons-in-lawsons-in-law Their connections were those of fathers and sons-in-law, brothers-in-law and distant in-law relations. Parents with no daughters developed close relationships with their daughtersin-law and parents without sons became close to their sons-in-law. Some were even quite pleased because they had never much liked their sons-in-law anyway. Given the expected importance of gender for informal ties, tables present figures separately for older men and women, sons and daughters, and sons-in-law and daughters-in-law. Despite the dominance of intra-family support, the reported figures may well be under-estimates since some in the ' other persons ' category may be parents-in-law, daughters/sons-in-law or other relatives by marriage. These indicators of expressive support show relatively less reliance on friends and neighbours followed more distantly by daughters-in-law and sons-in-law. However, the remaining heirs include two women and three sons-in-law, or the adopted spouses of heiresses. Heirs were assumed to be natural sons and were replaced by adopted sons or sons-in-law if there was no natural heir. Dowries and bridewealth payments are thus the price necessary to gain the economic and cultural benefits of sons-in-law and daughters respectively. In a number of cases, sons-in-law or more distant relatives were preferred to sons as successors to the holding. He loved his family fiercely, two daughters and a stepson, six grandchildren and charming and talented sons-in-law. It became increasingly less likely that daughters (and sons-in-law) would come to head the parental household. Friends, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, and neighbours are also mentioned by substantial proportions of older people. Between 84 and 96 per cent of the retirement contracts among freeholders involved parents and children (including sons-in-law), while the corresponding proportion was much lower among tenant farmers. More adopted sons and sons-in-law became heads upon the retirement of the previous head than upon his death, probably because adopted sons needed a prolonged induction into the headship. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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