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Bookmark or Share- Is there a word meaning "my child's spouse's parents"?The words mean "my child's parent(s)-in-law", literally "co-parent(s)". They are used in the first person (Hello, Sympathera!) as well as the third person. Sympatheroi has a niche use in the Uniform Parish Regulations of the Greek Orthodox Church in America: "Relatives are not permitted to serve on the parish council at the same time.
- Filling out forms that ask for “relationship with”On the other hand, if the question began thus: "Child's relationship to person filling the form", or something along those lines, then the correct response in your case would be "son". While "father-son" may take care of any perceived ambiguities in the prompt, it is information overkill in this context and would only be most appropriate in ...
- What do the parents of married children call each other? As in, the ...There's a specific term for the relationship between people whose children marry each other: co-parents-in-law. The relationship between people whose children marry each other: the parents of the bride vis-à-vis the parents of the groom.
- What is the proper way to say possesive with "person X" and self?Note: "mine and Julie's" is indeed grammatical. However, etiquette and common courtesy dictate that you should always name yourself last. Thus depending on your context, you may still wish to avoid "mine and Julie's", albeit grammatically correct. –
- My sister's husband's parents in relation to me [closed]Her husband's mother is her mother-in-law, while his father is her father-in-law. Consequently, you could also call them: my sister's parents-in-laws. But astonishingly, Google Books has no results for sister's parents-in-laws. Instead, the shortened in-laws is preferred. The expression: sister's in-laws is reported 363 times by Google Books.
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