* A challenge

[Valkrider]

The following was sent to me as a joke but it would be interesting putting this into Family Historian and looking at the diagram:

Dear Sir,

Can you answer this benefits question please?

Many years ago, I married a widow out of love who had an 18-year-old daughter.

After the wedding, my father, a widower, came to visit a number of times, and he fell in love with my step-daughter.

My father eventually married her without my authorization. As a result, my step-daughter legally became my step-mother and my father my son-in-law.

My father's wife (also my step-daughter) and my step-mother, gave birth to a son who is my grandchild because I am the husband of my step-daughter's mother. This boy is also my brother, as the son of my father. As you can see, my wife became a grandmother, because she is the mother of my father's wife. Therefore, it appears that I am also my wife's grandchild.

A short time after these events, my wife gave birth to a son, who became my father's brother-in-law, the step-son of my father's wife, and my uncle.

My son is also my step-mother's brother, and through my step-mother, my wife has become a grandmother and I have become my own grandfather.

In light of the above mentioned, I would like to know the following: Does my son, who is also my uncle, my father's son-in-law, and my step-mother's brother fulfil the requirements for receiving childcare benefits?

[TimTreeby]

Actually Diagram not that bad

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And relationships to Son.

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[Valkrider]

Great as you say not as bad as it seems

[tatewise]

BUT, that diagram does NOT show the previous Husband of the Wife and their Daughter, who is now Step Daughter in the diagram, and that would complicate things a bit more, but only by making the Me = Wife + Son cluster a bit larger in both places.