America's famous first children

The 45th president of the US has five children, but 10-year-old Barron is the only Trump child who might live at the White House with his parents - his siblings are much older. Barron would, in fact, be the first "first son" to live at the White House since the Kennedy era. But for now at least, First Lady Melania and Barron won't move to Washington until he finishes the school year in New York.

The White House has been home to the Obama girls for the past eight years. Malia, 18, is preparing for college and "eager to leave the White House," her father has said. Sasha, 15, is still in high school in Washington. As former President George W. Bush's twin daughters said in an open letter a few days ago, Malia and Sasha are now "joining another rarefied club, one of former first children."

Technically, the twin daughters of George W. and Laura Bush never lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. They were in college when their father became president in 2001. But as first daughters and first granddaughters (their grandfather George H.W. Bush was the 41st president), they spent a lot of time at the White House. Barbara now works for Global Health Corps; Jenna is a news correspondent.

The only daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton was the first child to live at the White House since Amy Carter. "I think it was both more ordinary than people may expect, but I also never lost sight of how extraordinary it was," she once said in an interview. The woman the Secret Service reportedly code-named "Energy" left for college at age 17. She now works at the Clinton Foundation.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter had four children, but only Amy lived with the president and first lady at the White House, from 1977 to 1981. Just nine when her father was inaugurated, she was the first young child there since the Kennedy kids in the early 1960s. Once active in political protests, she married in 1996 (pictured) and has maintained a low public profile.

Caroline was 3 years old and her brother, John Jr., a toddler when their father, John F. Kennedy, was inaugurated in 1961 in what later became known as the "Camelot Presidency." John Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999, leaving Caroline as the only surviving child of JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Now married with three children, the lawyer served as US ambassador to Japan from 2013-2017.

For more than two years, Caroline and John roamed the White House, walking their father to the Oval Office in the morning or visiting to play. Riding her pony by the name of Macaroni on the White House lawn, Caroline was a media darling. Photos show her brother hiding under the president's desk or playing with the secretary's typewriter. The White House was their home and playground.

Gerald Ford's four children didn't grow up at the White House during their father's brief presidency (1974-1977). However, Susan (second from right) held her senior prom there in 1975 at age 17, and son Steven (far right), 18 at the time, remembers parties on the premises. The first family is pictured here at the White House in 1976.

President Theodore Roosevelt lived in the White House with his wife and six children from 1901 to 1909. Quentin was almost 4 years old at the time and had a pony named Algonquin. One day, the boy led Algonquin to his brother's room, who was sick at the time. "I don't think that any family has ever enjoyed the White House more than we have," his father once said.

Abraham Lincoln also brought his wife, Mary, and the children to live at the White House. Little Tad liked to play war games; his father was president during the Civil War, which took place from 1861-1865. According to Mary, he was very indulgent to his children: "He always said, 'It is my pleasure that my children are free, happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny.'"