Oh I get it. I am not wanting to fight with the law. It was the example that they gave. When you want someone to understand that a "dependent" though it may sound like a child to even the most savvy that for tax purposes it means "whether you lived with one person, any person under these tax laws, for the entire taxable year then they can claim you as a dependent, then the last examples you'd want to use, is the only three examples and each one involve's only a parent's return. Well, had they given a non-parental example in place of one of those three, then not only would we be sure that this clause includes us, but we'd also have a name for it. Non-parental dependency? I don't know.
