Using court and notary records, Milanich focuses on families that took in
kinless children, as well as the children themselves, to conclude that child circulation constituted a form of welfare provision for illegitimate children.
NONAGRAM: clink' clunk' kiln'
kinless' kiss' lick' like' liken' link' luck' LUCKINESS' lunk' neck' nick' nickel' nuke' sick' sicken' sickle' silk' silken' sink' skein' skin' slick' slink' slunk' snick' snuck' suck' suckle' sulk' sunk' unlike.
Penningroth begins in Africa, defining slavery as a "
kinless" condition, noting that slaves were gradually absorbed into their owners' families.
The Anganen rawa man emerges in the image of the cassowary as the solitary,
kinless, irrational, violent being of masculine excess.
Developed as an alternative to genealogical connectedness when slave families were regularly broken up and scattered to a degree that made it impossible for individual members to maintain contact or look after the children, catching sense served as a way through which
kinless individuals could acquire a respected place in the community.