Does Birth Order Truly Matter?
For many years, researchers and scientists have tried to determine exactly how a person’s birth order shapes his or her personality. Paper after paper has been written that explains how each position in the birth order typically behaves, who each position is more likely to get along with, and how each position determines successful career paths. More time has been spent on the family with one to three children than on families with four or more children. Following are the main classifications of birth order and their typical characteristics. While the characteristics are typical, human nature and circumstance does allow for variation in some cases. • The only child is one who grows up alone, without siblings or one who spends the majority of his or her childhood without siblings, only getting a brother or sister after main personality traits are formed. The only child typically is ‘spoiled’, is the center of attention, and expects to get his or her own way. The typical characteristics
