[Data-modeling] Adoptive and other relationships

[Robert Cook]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Kirrily Robert wrote:

> On Apr 10, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Jeff Prucher wrote:
>
>> The relationship types are enumerated lists; more values can be
>> added if needed -- I just populated them with what I thought were
>> likely values.
>
> I'm wondering whether the names of these topics should be more noun-
> like, eg. "Step-child", "Biological parent", etc.  This would mean
> separating the topics for "Biological parent", "Biological child", and
> "Biological sibling", however.

The problem is that the relationship name needs to describe the  
relationship from both perspectives.  "Biological sibling" is fine,  
but not "Biological parent" as that would also appear on the Parent's  
topic.