Would his opinion be so colored by familial ties as mine seems to be right now?

The leading members of each family are usually connected through familial or marital ties.

They maintain strong social, familial, economic and political ties to their homeland.

He argued that running away was an act of desperation severing familial, social and economic ties.

Links to other people radiate out, based on familial and functional ties.

He has no familial ties to the traditional political elite in Lebanon.

If friendships are difficult to hold onto amid class differences, familial ties can be just as hard.

Some of Welles's claimed familial ties have not held up under scrutiny.

"Everybody's going after them for their art, not their familial ties," he said.

They fought without giving up their familial ties (Sila, 2012).