By: Maju
As firstborn, my childhood experience is that I did not feel that I got anything but trouble and undesired responsibilities from having siblings after me. Therefore I find only natural that firstborns...
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As the eldest child with two younger siblings I have found myself to be far more independant and responsible than my siblings in many ways. This is not always a good thing for me because most of the...
View ArticleBy: Claudia
Here’s something I never could quite decide in respect to those studies: if one of our parents already has an older child, but our other parent doesn’t, and we’ve never lived with that older child,...
View ArticleBy: Crystal
I’m the youngest of three. I currently have the highest education of everyone in my family on both sides for generations. I likely was more experimental as a child, but more career oriented at the same...
View ArticleBy: Crystal
lol also as the youngest you get blamed for EVERYTHING… I learned to just accept that regardless of accuracy =)
View ArticleBy: Tanya
I’m the middle child & female. I have a younger & older brother. And they are both equally successful & both equally responsible. Yet my younger brother is more open-minded. My older...
View ArticleBy: Jim
“firstborns reported greater educational attainment than lastborns” Yea, because most parents can only afford to send one to college. After that, the funds are gone.
View ArticleBy: Helen Kimbrough
I only want to say I found this very interesting. In looking back at the family I grew up in , My own family and others I have known . This analogy sounds very accurate. My sister and children in my...
View ArticleBy: Skeptic
With respect to chicken pox and mumps, presumably the data crunchers were smart enough to control for families whose oldest and youngest siblings bridged the development of vaccines for these diseases....
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