No words can express the anguish he felt when his elder children were torn from him.

The two elder children are married, and have issue.

Set elder children the task of teaching or helping the younger to play a game.

The elder child, now 12, was fathered by a man she once lived with.

The elder child may be made to give way to the demands of the younger one in order to keep the peace.

This job was left to the women and their elder children while the men were working.

My mother played up well, and the three elder children, who had been carefully coached, really spoke their parts as if they meant them.

The following are considered elder children and usually attributed to the first wife.

The two elder children agreed to care for the two younger ones.

Then our two elder children were only four and two.