Choose the correct answer for each of the following. Daughter’s daughter is

Concept

Kinship terms identify family relationships by generation and by whether the relationship follows a direct or collateral line.

A child is one generation below a person, and that child’s child is two generations below; the feminine term for a grandchild is granddaughter.

Application

1. Let the reference person be R.

2. R’s daughter is one generation below R.

3. That daughter’s daughter is two generations below R and is female.

4. The kinship term for this relationship is granddaughter.

Contrast

• A sister is a female sibling in the same generation.

• A cousin belongs to a collateral family branch through an aunt or uncle.

• “More than one of the above” requires at least two listed terms to fit the relationship definition.

• “None of the above” requires every listed term to miss the relationship definition.

Therefore, a daughter’s daughter is a granddaughter.