Names for siblings.

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Ex's new partner refers to our kids as being "full blood" siblings. From this I guess any half siblings are half bloods. Reminds me of Harry Potter and mudbloods. Seems a horrible way to differentiate between siblings when I don't think any differentiation is necessary at all. They say they are a family so I'd expect them to all be treated equally. Anyone heard of this and think it's awful?

I don't think there's a need for any differentiation, but if she was trying to clarify something eg where some of the children are, why they go to different schools, small age gap etc she might explain that some are half siblings. Half blood, full blood is weird

I just refer to SS & SD as DS's brother and sister. The only times I've had to call them half is when we've been at the hospital for DS, he's having assessments for autism and they wanted to rule out a genetic link, and when I was pregnant and had to specify he was my first. The blood bit seems really odd to me, I agree it's a bit HPish.

I grew up with half brothers, we have the same father. We all had the same surname and all lived in the sane house so I always just called them my brothers, unless there was a need to specify that they are half brothers. (There are only 17 years between DB1 and DM, which people used to query when they realised for example).

I don't tend to use half brother or half sister unless like pp said, in a hospital or official type setting, where the biological relationship is important.
I have 2 girls and a boy. My boy has a different dad but I don't consider them half siblings at all, they're just brother and sisters.
It was the way that it was implied that if you're not a full blood then you are somehow lesser and I find that really offensive.

The legal terminology around inheritance tends to describe siblings of the full blood and half blood. It’s not necessarily offensive in and of itself but sometimes it’s not very nice to flag up the fact someone is a step or a half.

LostInShoebiz yes, it's the flagging up of s difference that bugged me. The implication that full blood is better.

DP has a daughter from a previous relationship. Technically I guess her and DS would be half siblings. However I just refer to them as brother And sister