CHAPTER 7: SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS

Topic: __________________________________________________________

A. What research says about birth order:

1. First-borns: are very (1) ____________
50% of (2) _____________ were first- borns
45% of (3) ___________ b/w 1960 & 1999 were first-borns
21 of the first 23 (4) __________ were first-borns
The oldest are more educated, (5) __ __________ and (6) ________________
2. Only- children also (7) ______________________
3. Middle-born kids have the biggest (8) __________________
Studies in the US find out that middle children are least likely to (9)
_______________________ and (10) _______________________________
4. When parents have the third child, the middle child’s chance of failing increases
(11) ________________. They tend to suffer (12) ______________ later.

B. Reasons for the disparities between siblings:

First-born siblings (13) ___________. Higher birth weight predicts (14) __________________
The oldest and only children (15) ________________________ with parents => get more
attention, (16) _______________ and (17) _____________________
Middle children are surrounded by (18) ___________________ => have to (19)
_________________ for parents’ attention and (19) __________________
Youngest siblings receive more (20) ____________________________________

C. Other ideas: other factors that can lead to the differences within families
1. gender
Sons are often allowed more (21) ____________________, fewer (22) ________________
2. genes
3. _________________ / even more important than (23) ___________________
4. Hardships or difficulties that (24) ____________________________

Next week’s topic lecture: (25) ________________________________