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Forget sibling rivalry and the life-long damage caused by parents who play favorites with their children. A new study finds that while having a brother or sister can be a good thing, having a female sibling can be particularly great. But only if everybody plays nice. Continue reading »
My younger son stole a base in his second-ever little league game a few weeks ago. I was stunned – he’s seven. But according to birth order researchers Frank J. Sulloway and Richard L. Zweigenhaft, I shouldn’t have been surprised.
Sulloway is a long-time researcher in the area of how birth order influences personality, and believes that younger siblings tend to be more rebellious than their older – and more conformist — brothers and sisters, a theory he explicated on extensively in the book Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives.
Sulloway’s take on the influence of birth order and its long-term life impacts is controversial and not without its detractors. So in his latest work, he decided to turn to pure statistics and examine sibling pairs in the baseball’s major leagues, specifically whether younger siblings would attempt to steal bases at higher rates than their older brothers.
And Sulloway and research partner Zweigenhaft scored a home run. Continue reading »
What if the day you’re born, you could already tell how long you’ll live and how well you’ll do in school? Scientists think they can.
But where studies have long posited that a winter birthday is to blame for poor test scores, lower earnings and poor long-term health, there’s a new theory about birthdays. Continue reading »
A couple of British newspapers feature stories headlined something along the lines of: Mothers Really Do Favor Firstborns. Which of course made me, a second-born and mother of three children, panic a bit.
Did my parents really love their Precious First Born (the papers’ term) more? Have I been cheating my Neglected Subsequent Children? Continue reading »
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