[Leaning Right]

[Savage Beast]

I don’t agree at all. Parents usually favor their most unattractive child.

[God luvs America]

Easy- in an Italian family it is the first born male, 99% of the time....that would be me!!!

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[where's_the_Outrage?]

There is no doubt I have a favorite child, it’s my first born daughter, that has no siblings.

[servo1969]

My favorite child is the one who is least irritating me at any given moment. It changes continuously.

[mairdie]

You do put up great threads. Enjoying it muchly.

[MayflowerMadam]

Among our five siblings, it’s the first-born male, the third child. (Not Italian.)

[metmom]

I don’t have a favorite, even though some of them are easier to get along with than others.

I love them all equally, but like different things about each one of them.

[mmichaels1970]

children who are agreeable and conscientious

Duh! I’m more partial to the ones who lie, argue, and don’t listen to a word I say.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My mother said it was no secret that I was my dad’s favorite child but he loved my two sisters also. Its not my fault that I gravitated to the outdoors and was always out tramping the woods or fishing with my Dad. We had similar personalities and I just liked hanging out with my Dad. He was my hero.

[Jonty30]

The compliant child is usually the favourite, but rewarding compliance is not what should be done imo.

I’d rather have a moral child, one who can stand against the world, than a compliant one. I’d rather have children stand up to me if it involves differences of opinion, but not immorality.

[KevinB]

I could not have cared less whether my parents, especially my father, liked me.

[Tax-chick]

“Says Science”. Puh-leeze.

[ponygirl]

I’m the youngest of two. Sometimes I wonder if my brother was a Changeling because we grew up with the same parents and he’s always been an angry, resentful narcissistic liberal.

[Organic Panic]

Fine by me. As the last child in the family I was ignored and had the most freedom. It was great. I got away with a lot more than my siblings could have ever dreamt of.

[Wuli]

“But new research is blowing the lid off the ugly truth — there’s almost always a top tot in the brood. And, sorry boys, it’s usually the girl.”

And if there are four boys and four girls???

I think the “research” is anecdotal and not scientific.

I know families where the only boy is the favorite. I know different families where the youngest is the favorite, some boys, some girls.

I honestly think personalities of the children, regardless of gender, determine either parent’s favorite more than anything else.

[Harpotoo]

I was sandwiched in-between my 2 sisters and I know for a fact I was the favorite child;-)

[philled]

I don’t have a favorite child. I just like one of them more than the other.

[Sequoyah101]

"could lead to family chaos, per the findings." Gosh, gee, really? How did they ever figure that out? They must be genius! I am awestruck!

I always suspected but now, at my age and after what I have seen, I am convinced that there are not many new things under the sun, just new people who learn them and somehow think they are the first to do that.