Born into versus born to

[Flogger]

Hello,

What's the difference between "born into" and "born to"? In the following text, extracted from Wikipedia, the proposition "to" has been used. Can I use "into" instead of it? If that's so, What's the difference between them?

Hevesy György was born in Budapest, Hungary to a wealthy and ennobled Roman Catholic of Hungarian Jewish descent family, the fifth of eight children to his parents Lajos (Louis) Bischitz and Baroness Eugenia (Jenny) Schossberger (ennobled as "De Tornyay").

Regards.

 

[Tarheel]

No, you can't use INTO there instead of TO.

 

[Flogger]

No, you can't INTO there instead of TO.

Can you explain more?

 

[bhaisahab]

It's poorly written. It would be better as: "Hevesy György was born in Budapest, Hungary to a wealthy and ennobled Roman Catholic family of Hungarian Jewish descent..." I see no reason why you couldn't substitute "in" with "into".

 

[jutfrank]

The original sentence is terrible to read. It's badly phrased. The preposition should be into (not to). Follow this rule:

• born into a...family
  
• born to...parents

 

[Flogger]

It's poorly written. It would be better as: "Hevesy György was born in Budapest, Hungary to a wealthy and ennobled Roman Catholic family of Hungarian Jewish descent..." I see no reason why you couldn't substitute "in" with "into".

I wanted to substitute "into" with "to".

 

[Flogger]

The original sentence is terrible to read. It's badly phrased. The preposition should be into (not to). Follow this rule:

• born into a...family
  
• born to...parents

@Tarheel, says I cannot do that. But, you say it's Ok. Both of you are native speakers of English. Don't know I should listen to which of you!