They want the first born, if she's a girl, to one day be queen.
China's family planning laws limit most urban couples to a single child, while rural families are allowed to have two children if their first born is a girl.
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He was the first president born in South Carolina and the first to travel on a train.
Mr. Kidd says Mr. Dorsey agreed to help take care of Mr. Kidd's first-born daughter.
Primogeniture refers to the right of the first-born child to inherit the entire estate.
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But cultural norms dictate that in Malawi the first-born should be delivered at home.
He became Israel's first Iranian-born president and the first from the Likud party.
"My first-born sister used to encourage me, my mum also, but my dad sometimes was angry with me, " Yego said.
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Republicans reacted as though he had proposed a levy on first-born sons.
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They could also examine the effect of first-born children versus later births, sons versus daughters, and the impact on male versus female employees.
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The child-bearing trend began in 2000, when Tony Blair sired the first baby born to a serving prime minister in more than 150 years.
The Ottoman dynasty did not observe primogeniture (the right of the first-born son to the throne), so in principle the throne was available to any imperial son.
Another good friend of mine Hung Pham Do, the first Vietnam born Massachusetts CPA, was on the last plane out of Tan Son Nhut.
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My first- born died of natural death, natural causes from sickness.
No longer would you need to be a first-born male in a wealthy family, in many cases descended from nobility, it order to inherit property and financial security.
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As the first-born child (and an undeniable Type Double-A personality), I started taking over big things for my mother when my father was still in the nursing home.
The first was born in 1723 and the last died in 1813 a period of emerging empires, generating enough war, revolution and trade to absorb any number of precarious Scots.
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"I had to sign a secrecy agreement in which I promised my first-born children to a Michael Crichton Trust if I violated it, " Mr. Preston says of the interview process.
But he and his colleagues were surprised at the effects on bosses of having a first-born daughter, that that not only helps female employees but benefits male employees as well.
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The explanation for this pattern in India is that couples welcome a first-born of either sex, but if she is a daughter, then some ensure the second child is a son.
Suffused in the humanist tradition, erudite and wise, the novel examines how Cookie's parents, Alan (Woody) and Hannah Woodhull, and their two surviving daughters, Sara and Ludi, cope with the death of the first-born.
Faraone's son Osiride wants to keep the Israelites around and continue his clandestine love affair with the Israelite Elcia, so he urges Faraone to break his promise and ends up a casualty of the last plague, the Slaying of the First-Born.
Last year, however, the British government agreed with 15 other commonwealth countries that males should no longer be given priority and changed the rules of succession so that the first-born child of either gender could one day take the throne.
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But, since the idea is to promote marriage as the best foundation for the family, at a time when almost 40% of first-born children are born out of wedlock, these rights for heterosexual partnerships do not include equality with married couples for tax purposes.
Two baby giant otters - the first to be born at Chester Zoo's new breeding centre - have made their first public appearance.
And then, in the last year of British imperial rule, my first child was born here.
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