![]() He writes: "Middle children, the most populous birth-order demographic throughout most of human history, will soon be the tiniest." I write this after discovering that August 11 is Middle Child Day in the US, a festival of which I had never heard until I read Adam Sternbergh's compelling account of why we need more middle children at the very time we are losing them. Credit: Dominic LipinskiĪs a middle born I would argue that all that attention is bad for you! While the growth in single-child families is applauded for a range of reasons, such as environmental impact and financial responsibility, there is one important reason we should have more than one child. And today, we need more of that than ever before.īritain's Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge are bucking the trend and having three children. He discovered that those scientists - and those who supported the discoveries - were younger siblings. He'd uncovered a startling finding as he was analysing the lives of scientists who made revolutionary discoveries, or had revolutionary theories. He was everything I expected: a thorough, disciplined researcher and, of course, a middle child. I am obsessed by birth order and when Frank Sulloway published his groundbreaking work Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives in 1996, I was on the phone from Australia, desperate to do an interview. This ability to learn to resist is a good thing and I fear it will be a lost attribute as we move towards smaller families. That's what being middle born does to you. ![]() In response, I grew naughtier as a child and pushed back on authority as an adult. She was the adored first born who could do no wrong and my little brother was indulged endlessly. I stopped being a middle child when my elder sister died suddenly. ![]()
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