Sibling facts for kids
"Brother" and "" redirect here. For other uses, see Brother (disambiguation) and (disambiguation).
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Two Sisters by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Siblings are the sisters and brothers of a person.
Types of siblings
There are several different types of siblings.
- Full siblings (brother, sister): These siblings have the same father and mother.
- Half siblings (half-brother, half-sister): These siblings have one parent that is the same. They either have the same father or the same mother.
- Step siblings (stepbrother, stepsister): These sibling have different fathers and mothers but one of their parents is married to a parent of the other one.
- example: John and Tom are step brothers because John's father is married to Tom's mother.
- Siblings by breastfeeding: In Islam someone who is breastfed by a woman who is not their birth mother become siblings to the children of that woman if they are less than 2 years old and have been breastfed five times or more by that woman.
Related pages
Images for kids
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Two brothers from Haiti.
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The Benzon Daughters by Peder Severin Krøyer
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A newborn and his brothers
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Four Sisters (Frank Eugene, about 1900)
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Portrait of Lady Cockburn and her Three Eldest Sons (1773–1775) by Joshua Reynolds
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See also
In Spanish: Hermano para niños
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