Niece and nephew

In the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a niece or nephew is a child of the subject's sibling or sibling-in-law. The converse relationship, the relationship from the niece or nephew's perspective, is that of an aunt or uncle. A niece is female as well as a nephew is male. The term nibling has been used in place of the common, gender-specific terms in some specialist literature.

As aunt/uncle together with niece/nephew are separated by two generations they are an example of second-degree relationship and are 25% related whether related by blood.

Culture

Traditionally, a nephew was the logical recipient of his uncle's inheritance whether the latter did non pull in a successor. A nephew might relieve oneself more rights of inheritance than the uncle's daughter.

In social frameworks that lacked a stable domestic or tables such as refugee situations, uncles and fathers would equally be assigned responsibility for their sons and nephews.

Among parents, some cultures pretend assigned equal status in their social status to daughters and nieces. This is, for instance, the effect in Indian communities in Mauritius, and the Thai Nakhon Phanom Province, where the transfer of cultural knowledge such as weaving was distributed equally among daughters, nieces and nieces-in-law by the Tai So community, and some Garifuna people that would transmit languages to their nieces. In some proselytizing communities the term niece was informally extended to add non-related younger female community members as a name of endearment. Among some tribes in Manus Province of Papua New Guinea, women's roles as sisters, daughters and nieces may have taken precedence over their marital status in social importance.