The use of the \u201cin-law\u201d did not always just indicate the relationship that it does today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In most modern uses of \u201cin-law\u201d a \u201cfather-in-law\u201d is the father of someone\u2019s spouse. In the same way a \u201cmother-in-law\u201d is currently generally interpreted as the mother of one\u2019s spouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In earlier uses, particularly the early 19th century and before, a \u201cfather-in-law\u201d could be indicating that the \u201cfather-in-law\u201d was actually a subsequent husband of the person\u2019s mother. Today that person is generally referred to as a step-father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similarly a \u201cmother-in-law\u201d reference could mean that the \u201cmother-in-law\u201d was a subsequent wife of the individual\u2019s father. Today that person is generally referred to as a step-mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cin-law\u201d portion of the term stems from the marriage contract signed between the two individuals marrying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The use of the \u201cin-law\u201d did not always just indicate the relationship that it does today. In most modern uses of \u201cin-law\u201d a \u201cfather-in-law\u201d is the father of someone\u2019s spouse. In the same way a \u201cmother-in-law\u201d is currently generally interpreted as the mother of one\u2019s spouse. In earlier uses, particularly the early 19th century and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}