Family F.Y.I. Are second born children getting the short end?
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ave you ever wondered why your second child just amount of attention of parents dedicated to their seems to be so much more trouble than your eldest? children. In short, the study suggests that first-borns Well science has an answer, and no it’s not just you. A get more attention from their parents. Second-borns recent study out of the Massachusetts Institute of Techget less. “Second-born children tend to have less nology investigated the impact of birth order on delinmaternal attention than do their older siblings,” the quency. The study looked at an enormous number of authors write. They explain that firstborns get the children in data sets from benefit of their mother’s the US state of Florida and maternity leave followSecond-born children tend to have less maternal from Denmark. “We find ing their own births that second-born boys are and following their sibattention than do their older siblings. substantially more likely to ling’s birth. The study is exhibit delinquency probnot suggesting that all lems compared to their second-born children older sibling,” the study’s are going to end us as authors wrote. Interestingdelinquents. However, ly, the data findings from it may answer that ageFlorida and Denmark – two old questions parents very different environhave been dying to say ments – was consistent. out loud for eons… ‘why The reason for this? can’t you just be more Well… apparently its’s the like your older brother?’
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