Niece and nephew
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"Nephew" redirects here. For other uses, see Nephew (disambiguation).
"Niece" redirects here. For a more distant relation, see second niece. For the stock car team, see Niece Motorsports.
"Nibling" redirects here. Not to be confused with Nibbling.
"Great nephew" redirects here. For the racehorse, see Great Nephew.
In the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a niece or nephew is a child of an individual's sibling or sibling-in-law. A niece is female and a nephew is male, and they would call their parents' siblings aunt or uncle. The gender-neutral term nibling has been used in place of the common terms, especially in specialist literature.[1]
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As aunt/uncle and niece/nephew are separated by one generation, they are an example of a second-degree relationship. Unless related by marriage, they are 25% or more related by blood if the aunt/uncle is a full sibling of one of the parents, or 12.5% if they are a half-sibling.