blood-relation

More to the point, it makes the heroes look less irresponsible to leave a borrowed/adopted/guest child at home or dump them on a sitter than to leave an actual, blood-relation infant behind all the time.

Thoughts on Children Aging in Comics | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

There will be a full-scale graduation party with out-of-towners, fresh graduates, and blood-relation fogies like myself ... and oh yes, the pool.

of bikinis, and other demons 2007

He was not absolutely certain why the fact that she did not include him in the "blood-relation" feeling made him so happy, but he put the problem aside, knowing it was not safe to look too closely at it.

Ill Met By Moonlight Lackey, Mercedes 2005

On one occasion I became blood-relation to a young woman by accident.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

She remarked, when I was wiping the blood out of it, “You were a friend before, now you are a blood-relation; and when you pass this way, always send me word, that I may cook food for you.”

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Yet Kate herself had convinced herself of one thing, finally: that the clue to all living and to all moving-on into new living lay in the vivid blood-relation between man and woman.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

It is a wainscot mouse, and a blood-relation, we believe, to the very mouse that shrieked behind the mouldering wainscot in the lonely moated grange.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

Meanwhile, the women further alleged, Master Rababull's trusted blood-relation, Conabar, had crept to the House gates unawares and mercilessly slain Old Maskron when that unsuspecting worthy came and opened them.

Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Roland Jon Cheney

It is like jealousy, of which it is a blood-relation.

My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett

Yet he is as cool, as collected, as apparently unconscious of danger, as if every one of those painted savages (when aroused, red devils) was his near friend or blood-relation.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various