Posterity
Nouns
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posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat
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family, grandchildren, heirs
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great-grandchild. child, son, daughter
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butcha
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bantling, scion
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acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch
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off-shoot, off-set
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ramification
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descendant
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heir, heiress
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heir-apparent, heir-presumptive
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chip off the old block
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heredity
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rising generation. straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture.
Phrases
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the child is father of the man" [Wordsworth]
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the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, " like father, like son."