Birth Order

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this is done usually unintentionally. One must remember that does not determine the basic values of a person or the person's value to society. It affects social interactions more than attitudes and ethnical stances. Your and sex determines in a large part how other people in your family react to you and treat you which in turn influences what you think about yourself and how you react to and treat others inside and outside the family.
Your and gender affect primarily your social behaviour and how you relate to other people in your life. They affect the way you relate to your spouse, your friends and the skills you bring to parenting. Birth affects what kind of a spouse you will be because of how you grew up. "It is useful to know that something as simple as can account for major conflicts in a relationship and that neither person is to 'blame'" (Richardson 17). When one understands, for example, that an oldest brother of brothers and an oldest sister of sisters are ...

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caretakers. On the other hand, if the child is an only child or a last born, the child has not had the chance to observe any parenting other than their own. Therefore these children may feel overwhelmed by the responsibility of "being a parent" and unsure about how to do it. Only children and last borns are likely to be less overpowering as a parent like an oldest. If a child is the last born, he or she may enjoy playing with their children more than most parents do. (Richardson 27-28)



The relationship between the first child and parents can never be duplicated. It is filled with the awe and wonder of having brought into the world this little being, the focus of the ...

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