People say things like, "But she'll be lonely without a brother or sister!", or "You don't want her to be spoiled, do you?", or the appalling "Don't be selfish".
Once the selective two-child policy was implemented, his mother wanted to have another grandchild right away, and his wife also thought that the child would feel lonely without a brother or sister.
Those without a brother (or a sister) were treated as missing data according to the question on smoking behaviour of their brother (or sister).
Michael Foley, James Foley's brother, told Katie Couric of Yahoo News that "without a doubt" his brother would have volunteered to be killed first.
He claimed that the law defined an epikleros as a female without father, a brother who shared a father with her, or a paternal grandfather.
But there you stand, still faced with what that September morning brought: the rest of your life must be spent without a mother, a brother, a child, a dad, a friend.
The final argument for recognizing obligations to benefit fellow-citizens appeals to what David Miller has called 'relational facts.' Here the general thought is that certain relationships are constituted by reciprocal obligations: one cannot be a friend or a brother without having certain friendship-obligations or sibling-obligations, respectively.
Without a younger brother for whom to set an example, Peyton Manning became an arrogant, underachieving jerk who hangs out on Ryan Leaf's couch playing Call of Duty.
Or, an experience we endured twice at The New York Times, having a young Iraqi man working on our news staff gunned down by militiamen and insurgents, leaving children, some barely old enough to be in school, to cope with life without a beloved father and a brother, and to have no sense of why.
"Now, we have to adapt to the future without a husband, a father, a brother and a son; but Gary's memory shines brightly in our thoughts and we will forever remember the wonderful times we shared with him and the deep love and affection he offered so freely within our close knit family.
Gary Speed's family said they were adapting to a life without a husband, a father, a brother and a son following his death.
