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Anonymous wrote:I think he’s just using the word “bloodline” as his shorthand for describing kinship ties. He just wants the estranged nephew to feel like nephew is part of a close nit family and benefits from the love and support they have to offer.

The nephew already has the bloodline whether they spend time together or not...

Anonymous wrote:I think he’s just using the word “bloodline” as his shorthand for describing kinship ties. He just wants the estranged nephew to feel like nephew is part of a close nit family and benefits from the love and support they have to offer.

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Anonymous wrote:The whole concept of bloodline is racist 19th c. pseudoscience sold to middle and upper class US whites to make them not just anti-black and anti-Native American, but anti-immigrant. In all likelihood, wiping out your FIL’s bloodline would have been a 1930s eugenicist’s wet dream.

This is what happens when a poor education in US history meets Trumpism. I’d keep my son away from Grandpa’s ideas about bloodline if I were you.

This. And it's a concept that many parents passed down to their children and grandchildren in the early 20th century to boost white people's self esteem. (Note, am white person in a family where older people reference these sorts of things.)

Eugenics was still very popular pre 1950. Heck, people were sterilized up to the 1970s in the US.

Tell your kid not to listen to granddad, and tell them why.

Op. It's such an odd concept to me that I can't even see how even our 7 year old could take grandpa seriously!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole concept of bloodline is racist 19th c. pseudoscience sold to middle and upper class US whites to make them not just anti-black and anti-Native American, but anti-immigrant. In all likelihood, wiping out your FIL’s bloodline would have been a 1930s eugenicist’s wet dream.

This is what happens when a poor education in US history meets Trumpism. I’d keep my son away from Grandpa’s ideas about bloodline if I were you.

This. And it's a concept that many parents passed down to their children and grandchildren in the early 20th century to boost white people's self esteem. (Note, am white person in a family where older people reference these sorts of things.)

Eugenics was still very popular pre 1950. Heck, people were sterilized up to the 1970s in the US.

Tell your kid not to listen to granddad, and tell them why.

Anonymous wrote:I think he’s just using the word “bloodline” as his shorthand for describing kinship ties. He just wants the estranged nephew to feel like nephew is part of a close nit family and benefits from the love and support they have to offer.

Anonymous wrote:The whole concept of bloodline is racist 19th c. pseudoscience sold to middle and upper class US whites to make them not just anti-black and anti-Native American, but anti-immigrant. In all likelihood, wiping out your FIL’s bloodline would have been a 1930s eugenicist’s wet dream.

This is what happens when a poor education in US history meets Trumpism. I’d keep my son away from Grandpa’s ideas about bloodline if I were you.

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Anonymous wrote:My FIL has emphasized his strong family bloodline several times in the past few years. Once he said that DH's and my son is a shining look at the future of the "Jones" bloodline. Another time, he told me that he wanted to reunite with an estranged nephew in order to give the nephew a chance to be part of "a family with a strong bloodline."

FIL's family has so much drama and craziness ranging from the humorously banal to the sordid to the illegal, including alcoholism and abuse. FIL grew up in a working class family who were often dirt poor. My husband doesn't know what the heck he means by this bloodline talk. I'm just curious what DCUM makes of this. Is the bloodline important to you or your family?

One of my grandmothers once told me that if I ever adopt a child that she had made sure, and put in her will, that an adopted child would never ever get anything that was hers. She said that because that child, or children, would not be blood. My grandmother was a mean woman who nobody really liked. I stopped speaking to her after that comment.

OP, to some people blood is thicker than water, and it doesn’t matter the type of person it is. As long as they are blood they are more important than everybody else.