About two-thirds of the black children preferred a white doll.

Some young children, she said, prefer to stand at a computer rather than sit on a chair.

The child might prefer not to come home alone.

Which is how some children might prefer them: seen but not heard.

"Perhaps the children would prefer to remain and watch the magic mirror," he suggested.

For example, children preferred twice as many colors and different items on their plates.

Or they found that their children preferred to run around a room rather than sit at a table and hold a paintbrush.

Some children prefer to watch, at least for a while.

But he admits that his two children, both in their 30's, prefer coffee.