{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.fictive-kinship","code":"thing-q5446591","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q5446591/","name":"fictive kinship","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.2","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Cross-cutting context","entryKind":"thing","plane":"XCT","domain":["XCT.REL"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A form of kinship that is not based on blood or marriage but is socially recognised as kin-like, including godparenthood and compadrazgo, blood brotherhood, sworn siblings, adoptive and foster bonds outside formal adoption, milk kinship, honorary aunts and uncles, chosen families and kin terms used for close friends and community members; fictive kinship is studied in anthropology and sociology and provides support, obligation and belonging across cultures.","purpose":"Let an agent explain fictive kinship and its forms across 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