May-December Kids; The Separate Worlds of Siblings Born Years ApartBeth Mende Conny
On a range of metrics a sibling born in a recession will on average be less healthy, ceteris paribus: a one-percentage point increase in the unemployment rate leads to a decrease in birthweight by 0.2%, and in foetal growth by 0.3%; an increase in small-for-gestational-age (SGA) new-...
which constitutes a novel insight. Firstborn children are in general more patient and trust less than second-born children. However, while patience is independent of the siblings’ gender composition, trust increases for
2. Beethoven's father creates a child prodigy Never mind the exact date, the year of Beethoven’s birth is sometimes questioned, and for years the composer thought he was born in 1772, two years too late. This may have been a deliberate deception on the part of his father (pictured) to...
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger ...
incongruent behavior to set oneself apart from the same-sex sibling43. Girls seemed to be less influenced in sex-typed play by siblings of either-sex in the current sample, and there are different studies on whether there is a difference in reinforcing or attenuating sex-typed behavior (e.g...
However, recent studies that have The Long-Term Health Consequences of Birth Intervals 935 examined the association between birth interval length and both short- and long-term outcomes among siblings born to the same mother suggest that this may indeed be a prevalent issue. ...
around. The circumstances are quite different in this second family: here, Older Brother has moved into the vacated alpha male position, so he’s actually more like a surrogate father than a brother, helping to take care of the brood born two years after him whose father abandoned the ...
less than two years apart and collected three stool samples over three weeks. (Special diets were controlled for.) After sequencing the samples, investigators hope to identify particular strains and figure out how they influence brain behavior. “That would give us a better understanding of what ...
recent studies that have examined the association between birth interval length and both short- and long-term outcomes among siblings born to the same mother suggest that this may indeed be a prevalent issue. By comparing siblings born to the same mother, it is possible to adjust for all facto...