Snitching ass article reveals how to identify parents' favorite child

[RamsayBolton]

New Study Reveals Parents Do Have A Favorite Child. Here's Who It Is.

While the dynamics of every family are different, there seems to be a pattern when it comes to favoritism.

www.huffpost.com

Researchers from Brigham Young University and Western University pulled from 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and dissertation/theses, along with 14 databases, for their meta-analysis of “parental differential treatment,” or the ways that parents treat siblings differently. They categorized parents’ actions into categories of “differential affection, differential conflict, differential resources — like how much time you spend with your kids or things that you give to them — as well as differential autonomy or freedom — like how much leeway you give kids,” Alex Jensen, one of the study’s authors, told HuffPost.

A parent might show differential treatment by spending more time with one child, or spending more money on them, for example.

The researchers examined how this differential treatment varied by the children’s birth order and gender, as well as their temperament and personality. While previous research has been mixed when it comes to favoritism and gender, this study found that “daughters tend to be favored, and that was across the board,” Jensen said. Both mothers and fathers tended to show differential treatment for daughters.

Not surprisingly, “agreeable or conscientious children tend to be favored. That’s also across the board,” Jensen said.

When it came to birth order, it was also no surprise to see that parents tended to grant first-born children more freedom and autonomy — these children are, after all, older than their siblings by definition. But this favoritism persisted into adulthood, Jensen said, well past the point when a parent would worry about a child’s ability to, say, go to the store on their own.

TL;DR probably the girls and/or probably the eldest kid

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

Middle child for me and I'm my parents favorite child due to being the dependable one and handling business that needs to be done. Funniest part about it is out of my sibling order, the eldest is the least dependable.

 

[Redwood]

at the title thread.

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

"A son who believes himself to be his mother's favorite has a lifelong confidence that nothing can shake." - Sigmund Freud

"I don't know if I was her favorite; I gave her the hardest time. I can tell you that." - Denzel Washington

 

[Commish]

OP..

Do you think that the average parent with multiple kids play favorites?

IMO, I think that many parents either play favorites or is closer to certain kids over others. I seen it within my personal life.

The unfortunate part about it is that some parents make it blatant and may alienate one child over said child's siblings. Seen that as well..

I don't think any parent should play favorites, but I can't tell a parent how to parent. I just think that the child that is least favored may be the child that may be depended upon when the parent reaches old age and that particular child my remember how he or she was treated and treat his/her parent the same way.