In West Bengal it is working with the government to provide landless families who have daughters and no sons, with micro-plots of land.
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Though he had no sons to take over his businesses, his four daughters Anna, Bessie, Cissy and Doreen - named in alphabetical order the "better to remember them by, " he said - all married well.
"Downton Abbey" centers on a British aristocrat, Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, who has three daughters but no sons to whom he can leave his estate, as required under British property rules at the time.
Ms Kaur's research in five Indian states finds that richer middle-class families are no longer using sons as vehicles for upward mobility.
No offense, sons, but -- (laughter) -- I'm just saying, when you've got wonderful daughters it puts a smile on your face.
Paul is the third of Irwin's four sons (no daughters) and the one most like him.
Her sons showed no sign of having heard her, and she wondered again which of her threats they would remember, which would be useful and which would scar.
She was already having trouble raising two sons and had no job and no stable relationship.
When former New York State comptroller Alan Hevesi pleaded guilty last year in a pension-fund investigation by then-Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, he negotiated an agreement in which prosecutors stipulated there was no evidence to charge his sons with any crimes.
Iraqi television said Saddam had met officials on Wednesday, including his two sons, but showed no footage of the meeting.
Having no mortgage, no career and two grown up sons meant that "all the pieces seemed to fit" for making the trip, he said.
No surprise, since both are sons of prime ministers.
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On National Equal Pay Day, let us resolve to become a Nation that values the contributions of our daughters as much as those of our sons, denies them no opportunity, and sets no limits on their dreams.
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Holm Putzke, a law professor in Passau who wrote an essay on the topic in 2008, says there would be no controversy if parents waited for their sons to come of age (14 years in religious matters) so that the young men could decide for themselves whether to be circumcised.
Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that the few sons born into Ota families want to stay.
But there is no mystery about his relations with his two sons.
The woman's husband and two sons were at the convention center with no idea she was in labor, or where she had gone.
In the days prior, Ryan Bresette had put up several messages and photos on Facebook about the family's vacation in Destin, Florida -- including several showing two of his sons playing in the Gulf water, with no one else in sight.
Ms Gill and her two sons, Oak, 18, and Daegan, 14, had no house insurance and lost most of their possessions in the fire.
The inquest heard Lee Turner, who was on holiday with his wife and their two sons aged three and four, offered to help but Bird mumbled "no, go".
With seven daughters, five sons and a handful of chickens to feed, Kya Law says he has no choice.
No other nation has sacrificed more -- in treasure, in the lives of our sons and daughters -- so that these freedoms could take root and flourish around the world.
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In Renaissance Italy, it turns out, there was no end of advice as to how to get them: would-be parents of sons should eschew strong drink, endure abstention to build up their strength and then have intercourse early in the day.
"Fathers love their sons and mine certainly did, and I had been quite sure he would say no, " von Kleist recalled.
Some analysts say they believe Mr. Kim is laying the groundwork for one of his sons to succeed him as ruler if his health turns poor again, but there has been no indication of that in North Korea's internal media.
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