Birth Order

I do believe that the birth order of children affects their personalities. In my family I can see that the order we are born has affected the roles we have taken on. The oldest in my family is responsible, driven leadership material, and so on. These are characteristics of the oldest sibling and the roles they take on. Now in my family there are many middle children, we aren’t all the same but we all show rolls of the middle children. Some of us are peacemakers, creative, and all of us are independent, working on our own. According to frank Sulloway, “Within the family they are about as strong as gender differences.” In my family I see this to be true. I see that mainly the girls are the peacemakers, and the guys are the negotiators. As for the youngest in the family is can easily see how she is dependent, creative, and comical/entertaining. These are the things that I can easily see about the birth order in my family, if this is true for my families there are many more family’s this fits. I believe that this is true for mist families but may not apply to all family. This could be due to how the children are treated and raised.