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The Influence Of Birth Order

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For decades even centuries, people have thought the eldest child is responsible and has the highest intellectual in the family not including the parents. While the youngest is spoiled to their heart's content and have an average range of intellect. Many wonder if this fact is true or merely a myth made up by our ancestors to show the superiority of the eldest in families. Throughout the years, sociologists have studied different types of families to discover if the birth order affects anything especially the intellect and success academically. Researchers in recent years have have found new evidence about the birth order effects. In 2015, Hotz and Pantano have discovered that the eldest do better however this is greatly influenced by the size of the family, its dynamics and the parents reputation. …show more content…

Nissenbaum found that the reasoning behind this result was because middle-born do not have a high self esteem and a low sense of value. While the only-borns have very few interactions with those close to their age. By having a low self esteem and no interactions with others one's age, it is difficult to succeed academically and socially. As it seems from researchers’ results from their investigations, the eldest may be the most academically successful but, there is no results about how the eldest interact with those around socially. From this information, it is valid for people to think birth order affects academic success and social success. Being the first, middle, last or only does affect how well children and adolescents do in academia and social

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