A study from 2017 claims second-born children are more likely to misbehave, sometimes with severe consequences. According to a report from Joseph Doyle, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the "curse of the second-born child" might be true after all. ⁠ ⁠ Doyle and his colleagues say that second-borns, particularly boys, are inclined to be more rebellious than their older siblings. Their collected data, which looked at thousands of sets of brothers in both the U.S. and Europe, showed that second-born children are 25% to 40% more likely to get in serious trouble at school or with the law.⁠ ⁠ One possible explanation for these findings is that parenting styles can change according to birth order, according to NPR. For example, first-born kids often receive undivided attention from parents, while younger siblings have to compete for attention. And, as the family grows, dynamics change.⁠ ⁠ _____⁠ ⁠ Source: MIT⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #children #troublemaker #secondborn #firstborn #kid...