Re: Words for family groups

In a message dated 5/22/99 6:06:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, fortytwo@UFL.EDU
writes:

<< Yeah, same here "That man is my friend's son", but that, for me, also
 applies to children, "that boy is my friend's son" sounds a little
 better than "that boy is my friend's child".  But, in
 non-gender-specific situations, "child" is definitely more common than
 "offspring", it's "Adult Children of Alcoholics" not "Adult Offspring of
 Alcoholics". >>

I think that's probably because being someone's "child" connotes actually
being raised by them, and being someone's "offspring" sounds like they were a
burning airplane you jumped out of

pacs precs
Joe Mondello