If no choice is made, the child automatically obtains the father's surname.

If the parents of the child are not married, the children will automatically obtain their mother's name unless otherwise indicated.

With this 'good education', rich children perform better, achieve higher and obtain greater rewards.

Where the arrangement works well, children obtain a secure substitute home.

We are constantly wrestling with the problem that children cannot obtain mental-health services for themselves.

About one third of working children obtain no benefit from their employer.

Officer Cox said the source of the cocaine and the way in which the child obtained it were being investigated.

The task of the teacher was to help children 'obtain insight into certain basic ways in which human experience has been developed and elaborated'.

The money is used to buy Christmas presents that the children would otherwise not obtain.

All children must obtain an education that gives them fair opportunities in the world we live in today.