Citations:milk sibling

English citations of milk sibling

Noun: "a person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself (e.g., the child of one's wet nurse)"

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• 1952 — Mark Zborowski & Elizabeth Herzog, Life Is with People: The Jewish Little-Town of Eastern Europe, International Universities Press (1952), page 326:

  Her own child is the "milk sibling" of the one she has nursed.

• 1990 — Ruth C. Busch, Family Systems: Comparative Study of the Family, Peter Lang (1990), →ISBN, page 121:

  The Koranic prohibition on marriage to a milk sibling is the cause of trouble in some cases.

• 1992 — Jane Khatib-Chahidi, "Milk Kinship in Shi'ite Islamic Iran", in The Anthropology of Breast-Feeding: Natural Law or Social Construct (ed. Vanessa Maher), Berg Publishers Limited (1995), →ISBN, page 112:

  The parents of the children will exchange visits, favours and gifts; when the milk siblings grow up, they will be expected to be on close terms with each other throughout their adult life.

• 2004 — Rebecca Popenoe, Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty, and Sexuality Among a Saharan People, Routledge (2004), →ISBN, page 94:

  But knowingly to marry someone who is a milk sibling is, as Sidi told me gravely, to go against Islam.

• 2009 — Ina May Guskin, Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding, Bantam Books (2009), →ISBN, page 233:

  This means that a young woman who would have to be veiled in the presence of any men outside her immediate family would not be required to wear the veil in the presence of a "milk sibling."

• 2012 — Leonore Davidoff, Thicker Than Water: Siblings and Their Relations, 1780-1920, Oxford University Press (2012), →ISBN, page 43:

  The belief that a special relationship united babies breastfed by the same woman made them milk siblings. Their children, in turn, might regard their parents' milk sibling as an honorary aunt or uncle, […]