Birth Order

Birth order is defined as a person's rank by age among his or her siblings. Birth order is often believed to have a profound and lasting effect on psychological development. This assertion has been repeatedly challenged by researchers, yet birth order continues to have a strong presence in pop psychology and popular culture.

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Famous quotes containing the words birth and/or order:

    “Nature seems at each man’s birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)