Notice that God says the needs of your church family are to be given preference, not put at the bottom of your "things to do" list.

请留意：神说，你要先照顾你的教会家庭，而不是将教会需要放在你工作清单的最后一项。

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You are part of the new middle class; your income is rising; you want a small family. But traditional mores hold sway around you, most important in the preference for sons over daughters.

假设你是新兴中产阶级的一分子，你的收入在增加，而你不希望要太多的孩子，但传统的观念对你还有着无时不刻的影响，而最重要的影响则体现在重男轻女的思想上。

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Three decades of strict family-planning policies have exacerbated a traditional preference for boy children and contributed to a shortage of marriageable women.

三十年来的严格的人口政策加重了传统意义上的男孩为主的思维并导致了适婚妇女的短缺.

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There was no food in the apartment, and one theory is that Firestone starved, though no autopsy was conducted, by preference of her Orthodox Jewish family.

NEWYORKER: Death of a Revolutionary

The preference rule of thumb for connecting with family, friends and associates typically depends upon the generation.

FORBES: Your Customers Have Connection Preferences

Another article says that preference should be given to traditional (ie heterosexual) family relationships, and says that marriage and the parent-child relationship form the basis of the traditional family.

BBC: Q&A: Hungary's controversial constitutional changes