Customer Reviews

Family Therapy and Sibling Position (The master work series)

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This pioneering study analyzes the effect of birth order and birth spacing on such factors as friendship, marriage and career success. First- children are generally taken to be leaders and most responsible. The second child is ordinarily the more flexible and compromising. And in a three child- family the youngest is often the most creative and rebellious.
My brief remarks do not of course do justice to the complexity of Toman's study.
Clearly birth- order is not the single factor, and often not the decisive one in shaping a personality. But Toman gives evidence that it is an important factor which taken into consideration with many others helps shape the person.