- avuncular: like an uncle
- bigamy: marriage to two mates
- familial: having to do with the family
- fraternal: pertaining to brothers, brotherly
- fraternize: 1. to friendly with 2. to socializie with an enemy poulation
- matriarchy: a society ruled or controlled by women
- matriculate: to regsiter as a student at a college or universtity
- matrix: the surrondings within which something begins or developes
- monogamy: marriage to a single mate
- patriarch: 1. the male head of a family or tribe 2. an old testament ancestor 3. founding father or wise man
- patrimony: a family inheritance
- patronage: 1. support, encouragement 2. business clientle, customers
- patronize: 1. to go to regularly, 2. to treat someone as an inferior
- patronymic: name drived from a paternal ancestor
- uxorious: dominated by one's wife