Sister is a popular family character

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The word "sister" literally means "one's own woman" or "the woman of her family." Linguists suggest that it originated from the Indo-European "sve-sor", spread to all language groups and by now is as often used as the word "mother".

Kinship ties

The generally accepted definition is that a sister is a child of the same parents from the point of view of the same child. However, depending on the degree of kinship or properties, they distinguish:

• Half-sisters (common mother) and half-sisters (common father). Often they are called half-blooded.
• Stepsisters, that is, not having a blood connection, but considered relatives due to the marriage of their parents.
• Cousins are the children of a brother or sister of one of the parents. In the European tradition - cousins.
• Sister-in-law or sister-in-law is a social property denoting, respectively, the sister of the husband or wife.
• The age division is common - younger and older sister. As a rule, such a distribution implies a certain position and responsibilities (the older one is the main one, more responsible, the younger one is spoiled).

Females also lead in the groups of babies born - the number of girls is 67% of all multiple pregnancies. From a medical point of view, they are all twins, but in everyday speech they are called twins, or twins. It is noteworthy that boys are less likely to be treated in such an endearing way.

Besides kinship, a sister is also a status term meaning profession (medical staff), social position (nun), or belonging to a religious group (sect).

References and abbreviations

The word "sister" has a similar sound in many languages. In particular, in Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbian, it is similar in pronunciation to the usual Russian ear. In others, the word is pronounced only slightly differently. For example, like this:

• English – sister ("sister").
• French – sœur.
• Swedish – syster.
• German – Schwester ("shvester").
• Polish – siostra.
• Uzbek - apa.

Asian is characterized by the absence of the word "sister" as a separate morpheme. In Chinese, Korean and Japanese, there is a separate designation for each "kind" of such relatives. In particular, in Korea, the older sister is called “nuna”, the younger one is called “onni”, while in Japanese the eldest of the children will be called “one” (“one-san”), and the youngest - “imo-to”.

In Russian, a word has many derivatives that have the same meaning, which is connectedwith high language flexibility. A Russian sister can also be called "sister", "sister", "sister", "sister" and each of these names will be decent, appropriate for use under certain circumstances.

Family ties and incest theme

Incest is an intimate relationship between close blood relatives in descending (vertical) or horizontal lines, including cousins. This phenomenon is prohibited by law and actively condemned by society, but nevertheless, interest in sexual relations between brothers and sisters does not weaken.

In the recent past, by historical standards, incest of this kind was quite common. Everyone knows that the pharaohs of Egypt married their sisters (relatives and half-bloods) in order to keep the lineage pure, and the dynasties of Plantagenet, Capet, Lancaster, Habsburg at one time married almost exclusively with cousins. Among the latter, ties between relatives happened so often that they led to complete degeneration.

During the XVI-XIX centuries in Europe, among the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, approximately 70% accounted for marriages between cousins. Moreover, there was no talk of any perversions. Under the current system of succession, having a cousin was the only way to keep the estate intact and pass on the title.

In today's world, marriage between cousins is prohibited in most countries. However, in the Middle East, its pace, on the contrary, is growing at a dangerous rate. In Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabiamarriages of brothers with cousins and second cousins reach 30% of the total, and in some regions the figure is even higher.

Legislation of the Russian Federation

According to Art. 14 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation, a sister is a close relative related to other children by consanguinity at least one of the parents. Sister or brother status allows:

• Notify them of law enforcement detention within 12 hours.
• The right not to testify against them.
• The right to take administrative leave from work for their funeral at any time.
• The right to exemption from property tax received as a gift.

Norms Art. 93 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation also obliges sisters and brothers to support other minor family members if the parents cannot do this for objective reasons (death, being in places of detention, absence). They are also indirect heirs in the event of death. The turn of full and half sisters comes after parents, spouses and children, and the turn of cousins comes in the absence of other relatives, including their own parents.

Fiction & Cinematography

The topic of relationships between sisters and other children is one of the most popular in the creative world and does not depend on time and country. The number of works where the line of brother-sister relations is not just touched upon in passing, but is one of the most important, is quite large. Such novels have long become classics of world literature, such as"Pride and Prejudice" (Charlotte Bronte), "Little Women" (Louise Alcott), "Three Sisters" (Anton Chekhov), "In the Vault" (Shirley Jackson), "Flowers in the Attic" (Virginia Andrews) and many others. Even the symbol of Russian poetry - Alexander Pushkin - through the centuries tells about sisters and the conflict between them.

Film companies from different countries also did not ignore the sisters. In addition to film adaptations of books on this subject, there are also original plots - Cruel Intentions (USA, 1999), Caligula (Italy, 1979), Difficult Children (France, 1950), Brotherhood of the Wolf (France, 2001), "My Sister, My Love" (Japan, 2007), "Bed for Brother and Sister" (Sweden, 1965).

Among modern series, the most famous are Game of Thrones, Hemlock Grove. Among the anime about sister and brother, there are also tapes. For example, Angel's Sanctuary, Skybound, I Love My Sister, and Sister's Delusion are worth watching.

Celebrity Sisters

There are many famous people in the world who work in kindred tandem. You can meet them in almost all areas of life, but there are especially many of them in the film industry. Everyone knows Mary-Kate and Ashley Walson, known for films about twins (“Me and My Shadow”, “Vacation in Paris”), Monica is the younger sister of the famous Penelope Cruz. The list can be continued for a long time. In sports, the twins Victoria and Valentina Semerenko, who devoted their lives to biathlon, are widely known, and in fiction, the Bronte sisters - Ann, Charlotte andEmilia.