Kingship Chart Examples
¹To understand the Kinship system, for assignment 14 we were to interview and create a Kinship chart for someone that is not related to us. I have chosen and asked someone whom I have known for many years, Mariah, M.H for short, to be my subject. For the reason that she has a multi-cultural background, she is half Caucasian-American and half Filipino, as well as I knew she has a fairly large family. I believe it would be interesting to see if there are any differences from her father's side of the family and her mother's side of the family.
²Though the process of creating the Kingship chart, I thought this activity has turned out to be more complicated than either of us have initialed thought it would be. We both laughed when I had to …show more content…
use more than one piece of paper to make the rough draft of her family Kinship chart. I also used different color of pens so it would not be confusing. For the finished product, I used two different colors of pens to indicate full-blood related siblings, half-siblings, and adopted-siblings.
I had quite a few interesting and shocking moments while creating the chart, one situation I thought it was particularly interesting, two of her aunts from the mother's side have married the same men, although not at the same time.
It was actually a sad story yet intriguing, one of her aunt (B.C) married her first husband (name unknown), and together they have two children (R.S and W.S), after they were divorced, she (B.C) remarried again with N.S, although they never had children tougher, but they did adopted a daughter (A.S), when this aunt (B.C) passed away, the husband (N.S) was slowly slipping into depression, he ended up remarried with his wife's sister (I.S), who was previously married and had two children (J.N and O.N). Interestingly The husband (N.S) has no blood relationships with any of his children, but he has adopted all other children from his marriages.
While creating the chart, I have a pleasant time learning about her family, it was an interesting experience because her mother has eight siblings, and most of the siblings have married, remarried, and many have children.
The only challenge I encountered was running out of space to write, and I had to use different color or types of lines to distinguish the half-siblings and adopted siblings, because this Kinship system does not have any symbol to represent the
relationships.
Another interesting situation was at one point my friend (M.H) had to look through her Facebook to find the names of her uncles, aunts and her cousins. Because there were quite a few family members she has never met as they do not live in the United State.
³I thought her kinship chart have represented a dynamic and complicate family, while the father's side of the family was smaller, compare to the mother's side which turned out to be a large family. I thought it may have reflected to the cultural differences,
I shared my friend that my mother also has a total of eight siblings, where my father's side is smaller, he only has two other siblings.
I believe the Kinship chart is a simple visual family relationships, that does not always tell the full story. For example, when without knowing the real situation, some may wonder about the two sisters married the same man. I had a really great time learning to create a Kinship chart, and discovering interesting family stories from my friend.
²Though the process of creating the Kingship chart, I thought this activity has turned out to be more complicated than either of us have initialed thought it would be. We both laughed when I had to …show more content…
use more than one piece of paper to make the rough draft of her family Kinship chart. I also used different color of pens so it would not be confusing. For the finished product, I used two different colors of pens to indicate full-blood related siblings, half-siblings, and adopted-siblings.
I had quite a few interesting and shocking moments while creating the chart, one situation I thought it was particularly interesting, two of her aunts from the mother's side have married the same men, although not at the same time.
It was actually a sad story yet intriguing, one of her aunt (B.C) married her first husband (name unknown), and together they have two children (R.S and W.S), after they were divorced, she (B.C) remarried again with N.S, although they never had children tougher, but they did adopted a daughter (A.S), when this aunt (B.C) passed away, the husband (N.S) was slowly slipping into depression, he ended up remarried with his wife's sister (I.S), who was previously married and had two children (J.N and O.N). Interestingly The husband (N.S) has no blood relationships with any of his children, but he has adopted all other children from his marriages.
While creating the chart, I have a pleasant time learning about her family, it was an interesting experience because her mother has eight siblings, and most of the siblings have married, remarried, and many have children.
The only challenge I encountered was running out of space to write, and I had to use different color or types of lines to distinguish the half-siblings and adopted siblings, because this Kinship system does not have any symbol to represent the
relationships.
Another interesting situation was at one point my friend (M.H) had to look through her Facebook to find the names of her uncles, aunts and her cousins. Because there were quite a few family members she has never met as they do not live in the United State.
³I thought her kinship chart have represented a dynamic and complicate family, while the father's side of the family was smaller, compare to the mother's side which turned out to be a large family. I thought it may have reflected to the cultural differences,
I shared my friend that my mother also has a total of eight siblings, where my father's side is smaller, he only has two other siblings.
I believe the Kinship chart is a simple visual family relationships, that does not always tell the full story. For example, when without knowing the real situation, some may wonder about the two sisters married the same man. I had a really great time learning to create a Kinship chart, and discovering interesting family stories from my friend.