do you consider your non biological birth relatives your relatives?

Honest & Sober

Do I consider the women who married my natural uncles to be relatives?

I definitely dang diddily do dang do damn diddily darn do.

They become my Aunts by default

I'd sure hope to hell that they weren't blood related, because that would be keeping things in the family.

Their offspring?

Yessiree, over here we call them cousins.

I missed the question about if my natural mother adopted children would I consider them to be siblings. In my case, I'd overwhelmingly consider them to be siblings and treat them as such. We may not be related by blood it just make us brothers from different mothers and different fathers. I mean how could I treat someone like nothing because of the actions of my natural parents. We at least share one common link - adoption.

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When it comes to my other family we not be related by blood but I still consider them all to be relatives - Uncles, Auntes, Cousins (1,st, 2nd and 3rd, 1st Removed, 2nd removed but see them all as cousins), Grandparents, Great grand parents, Great Uncles, Great Aunties, Nephews, Nieces. I may not consider there history or heritage to be my own but regardless they are family.

Lady GaGa person.

yes, i do, since they are my relatives now. i call my mom now - mom you know

Saix Puppy

Birth and Biological are the same. But I understand your question. I count them both as my family. I'm blood related to my biological family, so yet their my family. But I grew up with my adoptive family and they've always been there for me. So yes, I do consider them family.

Phaery G

Some people are family because of biology, and some are family because of the law. I'm not biologically related to my sister's husband, my uncle's wife, or for that matter my own husband, but I love them and they are just as much my family as anyone who's related to me by blood. If my grown-up child ever adopts a child, then that will be my grandchild. Period. End of story.

å°é»ƒ

"the people who are married to your bio aunties and uncles." (on the biological side) Yes.

"non biological birth relatives your relatives?" (on the adoptive side) Yes.

LinnyG

Your terminology confuses the heck out of me. A "birth" relative is a person who is biologically related to you- by DNA. By genetics. By blood. An adoptive relative is related to you by adoption.

My adoptive Mom and dad's siblings are my ADOPTIVE aunties & uncles. Yes, I love them, they are my family. The ones who are long gone and I have never met do not mean anything to me. The ones I know and were raised with are my family, I love them. But they are NOT "birth" relatives, they are adoptive relatives.

My BIRTH aunts and uncles, my biological Mother and father's siblings, are my BIRTH relatives. They are related to me by birth. I love them too.

I have 2 families. The one I was raised in, my adoptive family, and my biological family, the ones I lost when I was adopted. They are all important to me.

But, I do not consider my adoptive family's dead ancestors whom I never met to be my family. They mean nothing to me. I have no ties to them.

kidmindi

When I met my first mom's sister and her husband, I refered to her as Aunt K and to him as T. I met them when I was 18, and did not feel as tho he were my uncle. After I got to know him better, I didn't even like him as a person and so there is no way I'd call him "uncle". Had I gotten to know him, and liked him as a person, I probably would have caled him Uncle T.

When I met my first mom, she was married, and I refered to her husband as my step father. I think al ot of that had to do with the fact that he was a nice guy and accepted me as my mother's child just as he did her other kids.

So for me, I guess the answer is I did not automatically consider them relatives, but once I got to know them, some of them became relatives. It is the same in my adoptive family, some people married into it and I did not care for them and they were just someone's spouse, while others became an aunt, uncle, cousin or whatever.

H******

I don't actually have any 'non-biological' birth relatives. <scratches head>

Jennifer L

Oh, so you mean people like my husband's sisters (and their husbands), or my aunt's husband?

Yes, even though we do not share any genetics, I consider them family.

yep without a doubt

Come Soon Lord Jesus

So if a biological parent had adopted a child would I consider that person my sibling? No I would not but I donâ€™t consider my natural Â½ siblings to be my siblings either. Genetically they are but that is as far as it goes. If I was one of those adoptees that considers their natural family to be family and are in a reunion then yes I would consider any step child or adopted child of natural parents to be my sibling. I do consider those that passed over that I did not know to be family momâ€™s and dadâ€™s relatives like my dadâ€™s mom died when he was 19 I never knew her but she was still my grandmother in fact if I ever have a daughter her middle name will be after my â€œadoptiveâ€ grandmother, that I did not get the chance to meet in this life. My momâ€™s Uncles who would be my great uncles, never knew them but heard stories I see them as deceased family. No not genetically but they are still my family just the same. My mom's late husband â€˜s family I consider honorary family. All my life I have called his sister my Aunt and her husband Uncle , their kids my cousins even though we arenâ€™t related biological or legally. They are still family.

cathrl69

Yes, I do. In fact I see and know my husband's aunts, uncles and cousins far more than I do my own.

After all, I'm not biologically related to my husband, either. It's ridiculous to suggest you have to be biologically related to someone to be family.

Not going there on relatives-by-adoption. Just pointing out that the "blood is all that matters" brigade simply haven't thought it through. Every single legal marriage makes a family out of two people who are not related. There's absolutely no reason you have to share genetics with someone to consider yourself part of the same family.

You can't have it both ways. Either we can select who we consider family - in which case there's no reason my mother-in-law, and someone else's relatives-by-adoption, can't be family if we want them to be...or we have to be related by blood for it to count, at which point my husband and I are not family. I know which I think is the better option.

Matt

In my case, I would say no! My adopted family...ie... Uncles & Aunts...etc.. I don't consider them my family, not even in the slightest way....
They have always looked at me like I was a stranger and I didn't belong.. When I was growing up , My adopted Mom would always send her nieces and nephews gifts,money for birthdays, graduations.....etc... I on the other hand never as much even got a phone call from them on any of my birthdays or any other day for that matter!
I remember they all flew down one year for christmas..... (4 Uncles & Aunts, and 9 cousins). My adopted mom made sure that she had christmas presents for all of them ...... Not one of them even got me a card !
So I never had any kind of relationship with any of them while I was growing up! I can happily say they have all passed away since then!

Raven

I'm not even adopted and I don't have any "None biological birth relatives" your related biologically then you are related by birth in some way.

Nora

no blood ties only

SJM

Well in some instances, they are my bio relatives. One side of the family came from a closed community, and there were instances of two or more brothers from one family marrying two or more sisters from another. So, I have aunts and uncles who are both my blood relatives on that side of the family. But on the other side of the family, no I really don't consider my uncles wives to be my aunts. I got along really well with both of my uncles and my cousins as well, but I really barely know their wives. I know my natural dad's adoptive daughter much better, and I would much sooner consider her family. Although, as I answered earlier, she was my (step)niece first. I have known her since she was a rug rat. We have had a relationship for many years--many years before the adoption, even.

Sunny

I thought "birth" was "biological".

Anyone who has a biological connection is a relative--it's just a fact.

anastasia beaverhausen

no.

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