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by Anonymous on December 6th, 2006

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Does your birth order affect your personality?

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  • by FancyFeast on December 15th, 2007

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    The only thing that makes a difference in the birth order IS the parental education that might vary.
    Patterns can be observed with parents having a first, second, third, etc. child.
    The first child will OFTEN bear more responsibilities vs the younger ones, helping with tasks etc. while last ones will often be brought up with a lot of care from others and not having to take responsibility for someone else nor themselves (contrarily to first childs). Last children will often need support from others to get around. They will often ask for more stuff, want their way, etc. First child will often be more responsible, take care of things other than himself too... (but that's if he/she was actively implicated in the process of taking care of the younger ones. if he/she was neglected vs the younger one because parents were more busy with the more needy younger baby, well then a whole other story will unravel)...

    So really. It's more the patterns that tend to be installed within the families than the birth order itself that will cause an effect. We see many 1st, 2nd, 3rd... children with the same kind of personality because of that. The kind of tasks, responsibilities, the impact a newborn has in the parental education and the attention one gets WILL impact the personality. Just like any other event that might do the same. (divorce, death, illness, adoption, foster parents, poverty, ...)

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