Sibling birth order can affect your health and well-being in different ways. (Getty Images) While birth order is known to influence people’s personality traits and behavior, whether you’re the ...

Whether a child is the firstborn, a middle child, the youngest, or an only child may affect how their family treats them, how much attention they receive, and how they may compete for their parents’ ...

While personality isn’t set in stone, your birth order can play a large influence, probably due in part to the shifting family dynamics as younger siblings appear (or not). Face it, the firstborn ...

According to a 1990 study at UC Berkeley, youngest children are more likely to take risks and be open to new experiences—hence your reputation as a rebel. You’re also more relaxed and easygoing than ...

When you think about your childhood, how much do relationships with your siblings come to mind? Or, what if you had no siblings, and could therefore claim the status (and the throne?) as the only ...

According to science, birth order personalities are not a thing. As the eldest child, I disagree. Here's why (plus the science behind the studies). I called my mother to set the record straight. Have ...

In modern dating, an unexpected factor is coming to light, how family dynamics influence dating and reshape modern romance birth order. Long considered a relic of childhood anecdotes, birth order now ...

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.

Of America's first 23 astronauts in space, how many were first-born children? Give up? The answer is a surprising 21, or nearly all of them. I know that because I recently had the question in a quiz ...

For those who believe that birth order influences traits like personality and intelligence, a study of 377,000 high school students offers some good news: Yes, the study found, first-borns do have ...