Her family still prefers normalcy, and indeed values its privacy.

His family, suspected of collaboration, preferred to leave this city after the war.

The family preferred to maintain the site as a restaurant.

The family prefers not to disclose the cause of death.

As most Chinese families are given incentives to have only one child, and would often prefer at least one son.

Chinese families, particularly in rural areas, prefer boys, who later may work the farms and support the elderly.

With the violence on the streets of Iraq, some families would actually prefer to learn that their relatives are in jail.

Many Jewish families preferred to die together rather than be separated.

Young families prefer to have all the bedrooms on the second floor.

Some families prefer to send their children to it.