Liz and Phil have a daughter and three sons.
1 a female child in relation to her parents:
We have a son and a daughter.
They felt a glow of pride as they watched their daughter collect the award.
My daughter is just starting to learn how to do joined-up writing at school.
She has two daughters by her first marriage.
A photograph of her daughter was prominently displayed on her desk.
The share it acquired depended on the daughters' present circumstances, on whether they were unmarried, married, or returned from marriage as a widow or divorcée.
If there were no sons in the house and the heir was the eldest daughter, the marriage resulted, theoretically, in a mere reversal of roles.
Through these gendered patterns of participation, the parents create connection with their daughter and negotiate their parental authority with their daughter and with each other.
