Western-style adoptions and cross-cultural families are rare in Qatar, and a report by Qatari police earlier raised questions about why the Huangs, who are of Asian descent, would adopt children who did not share their "hereditary traits".
Irlen Syndrome is hereditary and Considine wonders if that might explain his father's volatility.
Hockney's deafness, which is hereditary and requires him to wear hearing aids in both ears, worsened.
He was elected to the Commons after sitting in the Lords as an hereditary peer.
Under a unique system maintained since 1957, nine hereditary state rulers take turns as the country's king for five-year terms.
Envisioned as an interim measure, it stated its longer-term intention was to "substitute" an upper house "on a popular instead of a hereditary basis".
Likewise the emergence of a corrupt and cartelised banking elite from her "big bang" changes to the City, part of a new class of global super-rich, tax-dodging and increasingly hereditary too.
Our individual stories can take unpleasant turns when our genes malfunction as a result of mutations that cause hereditary diseases or cancers.
Fabian Society pamphlets first proposed the creation of the National Health Service in 1911, the introduction of a minimum wage in 1906, and the abolition of hereditary peers in 1917.
Hereditary lords, heirs to medieval warriors, can still vote on legislation in a 21st century democracy?
In fact, just as Mirren, the actress, has acquired the regal confidence to leave the theatre and command silence in the streets (when vexed by drummers), it has become easy to imagine her double deploring, if not a hereditary monarchy, then the lamentably few roles – outside her palaces – available to older working women.
