In one, a mother is exhibiting signs of psychosis, to the bemusement of her sons; in the other, the eldest son is talking to his psychologist from his own state of psychosis, possibly triggered by his parents' divorce.
He has eight other children; the eldest is 15 and the youngest a little over a year old, and also ill.
The early Ming governmental system provided that the imperial princes other than the eldest son, who remained at Nanjing as heir apparent, be enfeoffed in strategic areas as regional viceroys.
Only one other person, Augustus' eldest son by marriage to Livia, Tiberius, was the only other general to triumph when he received one for victories in Germania in 7 BC.
The aim of this paper is first to test the hypothesis that, unable to satisfy the needs of all, immigrant parents of large families may give priority to the educational pathways of some of their children over others, specifically the eldest children and boys.
I was sitting in my front room reading the other day when my eldest son, Kwame, and his best mate, David, walked in.
I had only seen him like that one other time, when his eldest brother died".Her father, a teacher, opened up the empty science labs at his school to house refugees, and allowed the refugee children to join the classes.
On the other side, Lincoln's eldest son thought their crimes unforgivable, and the lead prosecutor opened the trial by likening them to secessionists: "The firing upon Fort Sumter... was nothing compared with this insidious, infamous plot," he claimed.
It wasn't until her parents died (within two years of each other, along with her eldest sister and a nephew) that she was free to strike out, aged 28, on "a line of her own".
Seven years earlier, Elizabeth Kentish, the 39-year-old third wife of a millionaire racehorse owner and mother of a five-year-old and two-year-old, told her husband she was taking the kids to the zoo several days after she complained of being "persecuted" by the other mothers at her eldest daughter's private school.
