This essay focuses on opposite gender family members or friends. What are your general  about what you learn in the article?  Was anything surprising to you?

opposite gender family members or friends

1 Read this article by Melinda Gates and respond.   What are your general thoughts about what you learned in the article?  Was anything surprising to you?  Did anything you read remind you of your own life? How much time do you spend doing unpaid work each week?   Types of unpaid work include (but are not limited to): cooking cleaning laundry child care that is unpaid (whether they are your own children, siblings, cousins, neighbor’s children that you help out with, etc.) Try to keep track and report on what kinds of unpaid work you do and how much time it takes you.  How does your amount of unpaid work compare to your opposite gender family members or friends?  Should something be do to balance the work?  Why or why not? https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/the-scourge-of-the-female-time-crunch/470379/

The word sibling was reintroduced in 1903 in an article in Biometrika,

as a translation for the German Geschwister, having not been used since 1425.^[4][5]

Siblings or full siblings ([full] sisters or brothers) share the same biological parents. Full siblings are also the most common type of siblings.^{[citation needed]} Twins are siblings that are born at the same time.^{[citation needed]} Often, twins with a close relationship will develop a twin language from infanthood, a language only shared and understood between the two. Studies suggest that identical twins appear to display more twin talk than fraternal twins. At about 3 years of age, twin talk usually ends.^[6] Twins generally share a greater bond due to growing up together and being the same age.

Half-siblings (half-sisters or half-brothers) are people who share one parent. They may share the same mother but different fathers (in which case they are  as uterine siblings or maternal half-siblings), or they may have the same father but different mothers (in which case, they are  as agnate siblings or paternal half-siblings. In law, the term consanguine is use in place of agnate).^{[citation needed]} In law (and especially inheritance law), half-siblings have often been accord treatment unequal to that of full siblings. Old English common law at one time incorporate inequalities into the laws of intestate succession, with half-siblings taking only half as much property of their intestate siblings’ estates as siblings of full-blood. Unequal treatment of this type has been wholly abolish in England,^[7] but still exists in the U.S. state of Florida.^[8]

Three-quarter siblings share one parent,

for example the father, but their mothers are sisters or, they share a mother but their fathers are brothers. They are genetically closer than half siblings but less genetically close than full siblings.^{[9][better source needed]}

Diblings, a portmanteau of donor sibling, or donor-conceived sibling, or donor-sperm sibling, are biologically connected through donated eggs or sperm.^[10][11] Diblings are biologically siblings though not legally for the purposes of family rights and inheritance. The anonymity of donation is see to add complication to the process of courtship.