While birth order is known to influence people’s personality traits and behavior, whether you’re the cautious firstborn or the risk-taking youngest child, that’s not the only way it affects your life.

While birth order is known to influence people’s personality traits and behavior, whether you’re the cautious firstborn or the risk-taking youngest child, that’s not the only way it affects your life.

Science shows birth order doesn’t shape personality. Our traits come from genes, peers, and experience, not our place in the ...

Birth order may play a bigger role in shaping who you are than you even realize. From the stereotypical elder, middle, and youngest sibling traits to the unique qualifications that shake things up, ...

Ever looked at your kids and thought, “How did they all come from the same womb?” Turns out, birth order might have something to do with it. Psychologists have long studied how your place in the ...

Oldest child? Middle child? Your therapist can probably tell right away. Where you fall in the birth order of your siblings — or pecking order, if we're calling it like it is — has been found to have ...

The news has been ablaze with stories about the birth of Prince Louis, Prince William and Kate Middleton's third child. And there has been much speculation about the personality of this child, the ...

First-born children earn measurably higher incomes than their younger siblings on average. This pattern holds across diverse cultures, socioeconomic backgrounds, and family sizes. Birth order itself ...