Aspect of Preference of the Firstborn Child in the American and Egyptian Family: A Contrastive Study

This is a descriptive study that deals with aspects of preference of the firstborn child in the American and Egyptian families. This study aims to identify the reasons of the firstborn child preference in the American and Egyptian families. It provides a linguistic analysis of aspects of preference of the firstborn child in the American family syntactically and socially, and the linguistic analysis of aspects of preference of the firstborn child in the Egyptian family syntactically and socially in some detail. The theoretical framework includes “The systemic functional linguistic theory”. The American data sources include the series “Everybody Loves Raymond”. The Egyptian data sources include the series “ الصعي د نس ر ”. The results of the study explain the similarities and differences between aspects of the firstborn child preference in the American and Egyptian families. It also clarifies the consequences of the firstborn child preference in the American and Egyptian families. This study concludes that a proposed opinion enables the American and Egyptian societies to avoid and reduce the problems that may occur among parents and their children, whether for those who are about to get married/have babies or for those who have already married and have children.