blood relative

Under the new policy, China will only send children overseas for adoption if the adoptive parents are blood relatives.

And though her friends may not be blood relatives, she said they made her feel as though she had the "biggest family in the world".

Barton was unaware of any living blood relatives until he recently discovered a second cousin through an ancestry website.

So: two sets of Beach Boys, driven apart by fights over money and creative control, neither containing any of the blood relatives whose crystalline harmonies lifted the group’s music to a kind of celestial state.

A relative of Haxby-Jones by marriage, who asked not to be identified due to the ongoing investigation, said she doesn’t believe the woman had any blood relatives and noted that the family “is estranged.”