Feel like your parents always favored your older sibling? They might have benefited from that more than you realize. A new study suggests all that extra attention makes first-born children smarter ...

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

If there's ever been banter about who is the most intelligent among your siblings at a family gathering, science has tipped the balance towards the eldest child. A study that evaluated available data ...

One day our baby, the next a proud big sister. — -- Like many first-born children, I am pretty much every clichéd stereotype in the book — independent, ambitious, driven, organized, a doer and a ...

Three years ago when my son was born, my life changed forever. The first few months were the most difficult of my life, but the ones that followed were among the best. Every day I watch as he ...

Fair or not, many advantages come with being a first-born child. First-borns tend to make more money than their younger siblings; they are more likely to earn advanced degrees, and they have better ...

In the African setting, the eldest child in a family often has to grow up faster than usual because of the responsibilities placed, intentionally or coincidentally on their young shoulders. How ...

Feel like your parents always favored your older sibling? They might have benefited from that more than you realize. A new study suggest all that extra attention makes first-born children smarter than ...