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Her eldest son has privileges of inheritance [of the father's auxiliary herd].
The children's ages ranged from 13 to 77 years, with an average of 35 years for the youngest and 42 years for the eldest.
If the eldest son is poor and cannot follow these observances, his eldest son or second son will substitute for him.
He got along with his eldest daughter, but he felt that the other five children sided with his wife and neglected him.
Both pictures also place an emphasis on the eldest son and on the father's relationship with his heir.
The house was transmitted in the male line, though our data do not indicate any preferential treatment of the eldest or youngest sons.
Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing for sure that the eldest male is in fact the head of household.
The youngest brother recognizes none of these cities, the middle brother recognizes 25 of them, and the eldest brother recognizes all 50.
Where parents had more than one child they completed questionnaires for the eldest child only.
In particular, living with the eldest son is the most preferred choice and living with a daughter is the least preferred one.
The normal expectation was that the eldest son would live with the parents, while other sons and daughters had less responsibility.
The eldest son looked after his parents through co-residence and, in return, inherited the family wealth (although practical care was often provided by his wife).
When the eldest brother died, soon after the father, the other three quarrelled over the inheritance.
In contrast to the eldest daughter, the second weaver assisted with farming, at times of rice transplanting, weeding and harvesting.
An older person's home used to be a social space, and traditionally the eldest had the prime domestic authority.
There are relatively more only or eldest children and relatively fewer youngest or other; 6-5 % of families have another disabled child.
None was less than 30 years old, the eldest was fifty.
After all, such small children could hardly have been the eldest or most responsible members of their households.
The family might have no sons and the eldest son might not be the most capable person to take over headship.
A first analysis clearly indicates that throughout all three periods the majority of the children boarded out were neither the eldest nor the youngest.
Therefore, quite by accident, the family had to designate the eldest daughter as pubilla.
The eldest daughter of the master's family taught her to read, write and do elementary arithmetic.
In some cases, the position of induna was considered hereditary and this position was passed to the eldest son of a particular family.
Consequently, besides receiving pieces of land in their own right, many eldest sons also ' inherit ' their parents' lands.
Nevertheless, he also attained standing in the community earlier than any of them and was probably the eldest.
He also describes one grand passion and how he asked his eldest son to place his beloved's farewell letter on his funeral pyre.
The tale also associates domestic discord and greed with women, from the stepmother (another interfering second wife) to the eldest sister ghost.
In areas of the city in which this urban transition did not materialise, the squatter house would be inherited by the eldest son.
The eldest sister had recently rejected two proposals of marriage.
Instances where there was more than one son as a potential successor were considerably fewer than the number of recorded successions by eldest sons.
Moreover, if the eldest son was deceased, the headship passed to the eldest surviving son of the deceased elder son.
In some states, the share for sons or for the eldest child was larger than that for other children.
In three of the four households, the head is indeed the eldest male in the household.
If he was the eldest, the others grew up with his disability and realized that they must be careful.
He wanted his eldest son educated for life, or rather for all that life might throw at him.
Whatever the exact answer, once the first - not necessarily the eldest - crossed the hurdle, the second, third, and others often followed suit.
The long-run gains are twice as large as the highest short-run costs, for the eldest agents alive in 2000.
His eldest son had possessed them, but not that son's son.
Within these families it is the norm for one son, often the eldest to inherit the business.
As the eldest daughter, her labor probably was highly valued at home, and she might have expected a long wait for initiation.
Although the succession passed in principle to the king's eldest son, this rule of primogeniture was qualified in two ways.
He could barely grasp the words uttered by his eldest daughter.
However equal the ownership had been, the eldest son was now seen as the natural successor to the headship.
Ethics committee consultation was requested again and the committee met several days prior to the arrival of the eldest son.
The eldest son arrived and after discussion with attending physician and other family members, dialysis was discontinued.
In certain cases, such as when the eldest male is a child, it is clear that he is not the head.
Taking care of the livestock was not just a male responsibility but was shared with the eldest daughter.
The government proposed to give, in case of deaths ab intestat, the disposable portion to the eldest son.
Hence, if eldest sons are more likely to attain professional status, they are less likely to remain celibate.
At all ages up to 46 years, smaller proportions unmarried were found among the eldest and only sons than among middle or youngest sons.
Her two children were playing in the dust while the eldest one was helping her at the store.
In the end, the eldest sister ghost tells a story, a sordid and tragic history in which marital ambition has a prominent part.
Clinically, this deficiency was manifested by a haemolytic crisis precipitated by eating fava beans in the eldest daughter.
The commune was not ' patriarchal ' either in the sense that its eldest members ran it, nor in the sense that an unusually high proportion of households was headed by men.
Because the eldest male commonly assumed the role of lineage head, status was linked to how closely one was related to that particular line of male descendants.
Unlike the eldest respondents in the survey, however, the youngest benefited more at the beginning of their adult life from the expansion of social housing from the later 1950s.
The family that was investigated had two weavers, one being the eldest daughter, who, despite being only fourteen years old, constantly wove cloth on a daily basis.
Therefore, the principle of primogeniture is somewhat less dominant than the proportion of more than half of all successions involving the eldest son might seem to suggest.
I have been able to identify 336 cases of women, from 222 families, whose dowries can be matched to that of the sister-in-law who married their eldest brother.
The bulk of the inheritance would still be divided equally between all of the children ; only the disposable portion went in its integrality to the eldest son.
On the tabanca level, the eldest man of the founding lineage has the power to allocate to each household unclaimed land on flood plains and at higher elevations.
If there was more than one son, however, and they were all married, the vertical household became horizontal once the head died and his or her eldest son succeeded.
Given that the survivorship of siblings determines how many children are only children, eldest, or youngest, the relationship between birth order and succession would require another detailed set of analyses.
When transferring the family assets from the present generation to the next, the eldest son or the eldest daughter's husband would become the successor by the rule of primogeniture.
When parents had neither land nor money to bequeath, the eldest son remained at home with his wife (if married), together with single siblings until the latter were married.
Prior to that, however, only a man's sons would inherit, with the eldest son typically receiving a double share and the responsibility for caring for the widow.
Relatively few of the children are only or eldest children and relatively more are youngest or other; 9-3% of the families have another disabled child.
The loss of my eldest son prompts me to greater productivity and greater diligence.
Because the eldest male commonly assumed the role of lineage head, status was linked to how closely one was related to that par ticular line of male descendants.
The eldest son might lack an heir, as he and his wife had either failed to produce children, only had daughters or had lost all offspring to early deaths.
However, the eldest son or daughter (the heir) in many cases did not leave the parental household before marriage and sometimes not even at that point.
To those who gave away their sons, having many children was less important than preventing the line of the larger family, or that of their eldest brothers, from being broken.
Eldest-son succession, however, was the general preference.
At first sight, the diversity of heirs in a society known to have had a stem family system, ideally headed by the eldest son, is striking.
The household reached its economic peak when the head was between 50 and 60 because at that period the eldest children became adult workers and were still living at home.
When daughters inherit, the family is thought to be following a pattern of eldest-child succession, or perhaps that they became the default heirs because no sons were available to inherit.
His eldest son headed the farm.
When these eldest girls were examined for any predominance of other variables, such as country of origin or whether still at school, no such bias could be shown.
Discipline, however, was severe, and for minor offences the master's eldest daughter flogged her with a birch, although the men of the household tried to prevent it.
Perhaps he will have the chance of consulting his eldest son.
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