son
Let an agent explain the son relation in kinship, law and culture, describe legal parentage and inheritance in general terms, describe cultural expectations with attribution, and route personal legal and family questions to professionals.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a son is.
Relation
Relation and forms.
Relation
Relation.
- What is a son as a kinship relation, and how do biological, adopted and socially recognised forms differ? definition
- Which entry fits kinship? action
Culture
Cultural expectations.
Culture
Culture.
- How do cultures frame the role of sons, including eldest sons and filial piety, in their own terms? provenance
- Is the presentation attributed and free of bias? boundary
Law Legal dimensions.
Parentage
Parentage.
Parentage
Parentage.
- How is legal parentage of a son established through birth, adoption and recognition, in general terms? provenance
- Is legal advice needed from a professional? boundary
Inheritance
Inheritance and succession.
Inheritance
Inheritance.
- How do inheritance and succession rules treat sons, including sons of sovereigns, and how have they changed? provenance
- Which entry fits inheritance law? action
Family Family life.
Relationships
Parent-son relationships.
Relationships
Relationships.
- What does research say about parent-son relationships across development? provenance
- Is someone in a family crisis, needing support services? boundary
Support
Support.
Support
Support.
- What family support resources exist? provenance
- Which entry fits family support? action
Learn History and teaching.
History
History.
History
History.
- How have ideas about sons and their duties changed historically, according to historians? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can kinship roles be taught comparatively? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Other names and narrower kinds
- biological son, daughter's son, non-biological son, xiaozi, son of sovereign, oldest son, filius, first son, tenth son, ninth son, eighth son, seventh son
What it is Filled
A male child in relation to his parents, whether by birth, adoption or other social recognition, including biological and non-biological sons, sons of sovereigns with succession roles, eldest sons with particular expectations in many traditions, and grandsons as sons of daughters or sons; sonship is a kinship relation with legal dimensions of parentage, inheritance and duty, and cultural dimensions such as filial piety in Confucian traditions.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the son relation in kinship, law and culture, describe legal parentage and inheritance in general terms, describe cultural expectations with attribution, and route personal legal and family questions to professionals.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Kinship relation
- Legal parentage
- Inheritance and duty
- Cultural expectations
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Infer or reveal biological parentage without consent.
- Treat adopted or non-biological sons as lesser.
- Disclose details about minors and their families.
- Support preference for sons over daughters in decisions about children.
Only with a human decision
- Disclosing results of parentage tests.
- Changing legal records of parentage.
May
- Describe the son relationship, including adoptive and step relations, with sources.
- Record family relations in genealogical data the user is entitled to manage.
- Respect how families define their own relationships.
Moral aspects Filled
- Preference for sons has led to discrimination and harm against girls.
- Parentage is private; disclosure can break families.
Who is affected
- Children
- Parents
- Daughters in son-preferring cultures
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: a family relationship; civil registries record legal parentage.
Master systems
- Civil and birth registries
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q130248800 - registry parent class
- Q239526 - registry parent class
- Q29514218 - registry parent class
related
- offspring - category
- male relative - category
- motherhood - the parental relation
- male - the sex category
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.son
- Wikidata: Q177232 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177232)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Male offspring of parents
- Biological, adopted or recognised
- A daughter is the female counterpart; a stepson is the child of a spouse
- Not physical; a kinship relation.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the relation
- describe legal dimensions generally
- describe cultural expectations
- route personal questions
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agents giving personal legal advice
- Presenting one culture expectations as universal
- Gender bias in inheritance presented uncritically
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Family and parentage law
- Inheritance and succession law
- Adoption law
Context of use required Filled
- Male child in relation to parents.
- biological sons
- adopted and non-biological sons
- eldest sons and birth order roles
- sons of sovereigns and heirs
- grandsons
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q177232: son - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Son - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should filial piety be a separate entry?
- How should family law be linked by country?
- How should anthropological resources be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q177232/spec.json