That individual with respect to his mother or father
Son is called that individual or animal with respect to his mother and father; this situation implies a relationship of consanguinity between parents and children. In some way, all human beings are someone's children, since we all have parents, even if they have already died or are far from their children because they live in a distant place, or failing that because they have fought and do not have Contact.
So, the concept of child is closely linked to that of parents, that is, without parents there would be no children and vice versa.
Meanwhile, a person who does not have parents because they abandoned him or because they died is called an orphan.
Foster son
Now, we must also emphasize that not only will a child be the one that was procreated by their parents, that is, they conceived it from a sexual relationship, but also the child who adopts a partner and who is legally registered as a child will be a child. Normally he is distinguished as an adopted son although he is a son like any other.
Couples who have a problem when conceiving per se or also those who wish to do so can carry out an adoption. This action is carried out through a legal procedure that will be subject to the laws in force of the country in which it is carried out.
Normally the couple must go through a series of procedures and studies to verify that they are suitable to adopt a child.
Some decades ago, more precisely in those pre-industrial societies and with economies based especially on the agricultural model, male children were assigned a much more important value and consideration than that held by female daughters and therefore were owners of a much more social status. It is important for daughters, because men, a priori, are physically much stronger than women and that is why they can carry out those hardest tasks and perform them much more effectively than a woman could, they thought. those times.
Other uses of the concept
While, In the Christian religion, the term son is used repeatedly to speak of Jesus Christ and also to refer to the religious in relation to the founder of his order and the house in which he took the habits. The famous phrase about God who prays: father, son and holy spirit
But the term son, in addition to those mentioned, has many other recurring and particular uses ...
Any person with respect to the country or population of which he is a native is called a son.. "Joan Manuel Serrat, beloved son of Spain".
Also to that work that comes from ingenuity it will be called son.
When two people love each other very much and then to give an account of that affection they have for each other it is common for them to refer to each other in terms of their son. "Dear daughter, I think that young man does not suit you."
In addition, that which proceeds or comes out of something else by procreation , such as the flowers of a plant, will be called children.
The parable of the prodigal son
The prodigal son It is that son who after a long period left home following certain motivations but who has decided to return. The aforementioned concept has a religious connotation given its biblical reference.
The parable of the prodigal son is one of the most famous of the Christian religion and appears immortalized in the Bible, in the New Testament, in the Gospel of Saint Luke.
This parable that Jesus taught tells of a son who asks his father that he wants to obtain his share of the inheritance. His father agrees and gives it to him. The son decides to go with his inheritance to another country and wastes it in no time. This situation leads to misery and forced labor. So he decides to go back to his father and ask for his forgiveness.
His father when seeing him arrive is very happy and decides to honor him with a party full of food.
A son-in-law is the son-in-law and a daughter-in-law is the daughter-in-law; and neighbor's son that common and ordinary person is popularly called.
