Parallel cousins are found in the iroquois system of kinship and are defined as bifurcate merging.
Parallel cousins, or the offspring of one's mother's or father's brothers or sisters, were frequently referred to and regarded in the same way as one's siblings. Contrarily, cross-cousins, or the offspring of one's mother's brothers or father's sisters, were frequently regarded as the best source of children.
Bifurcate merging is the underlying idea of the Iroquois system. The ego divides his family into those on his mother's side and those on his father's side (bifurcation) and combines his father with his brother (A) and his mother with her sister (B) .
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