In the end, Tom chooses his son over her.
And if, God forbid, he should die soon, then the Witan will not choose his infant son to be king.
And each year some mother is honoured above all others by having her son chosen as the Perfect Youth.
After a long and divisive battle, the party chose her son, Anura.
Despite deep doubts, they choose her son, wrongly assuming it's her wish.
The other boys who were playing with him chose the cowherd's son, as he was called, to be their king.
Enough for her that whatever had chosen her and her son, they had so far been up to the challenge.
To which Ivan, just as quietly, replied, "He chose his own son, too, and look how that turned out."
The case of a woman who chose her son to kill her wealthy father.
Cromwell chose his eldest surviving son, the politically inexperienced Richard.