Mother-in-law

:This article is about the relationship between a person and his or her spouse's mother. For information about the 1961 song by Ernie K-Doe, see Mother-in-law (song)

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A person's mother-in-law is the mother of his or her spouse.

Related Topics:
Mother - Spouse

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A person is a son-in-law or daughter-in-law to the mother-in-law.

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She and the father-in-law are the parents of the spouse and in a nuclear family of his or her sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law.

Related Topics:
Father-in-law - Nuclear family - Sisters-in-law - Brothers-in-law

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They all together are the in-laws.

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In comedies, the mother-in-law is shown as the bane of the husband, who is married to the mother-in-law's daughter. Mothers-in-law are often stereotyped in mother-in-law jokes.

Related Topics:
Stereotype - Mother-in-law joke

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Some Australian Aboriginal languages have so-called mother-in-law languages, special sub-languages used when in hearing distance of taboo relatives, most commonly the mother-in-law.

Related Topics:
Australian Aboriginal languages - Mother-in-law languages - Taboo

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