Well, maybe it's not a question of liking them best. But according to this article,
we definitely spend more quality time -- reading, talki
ng, playing --
with our firstborn children. Like, 3,000 overall extra hours when those
children are between the ages of 4 to 13. And the more kids we have,
the less of that valuable time each successive offspring gets. These
findings are based on a study recently published in the Journal of
Human Resources.
The
gut reaction to a piece like this is to feel a. guilty and b. compelled
to somehow compensate for the time middle/youngest child has lost by
playing Connect Four with him for nine consecutive hours. But that's
not necessarily the right response.
Most parents would never,
ever say they prefer one kid over the other.
Most of us take pride in the notion that we treat all of our children
equally, a founding principle upon which all of our families'
Constitutions are based. The truth is, though, this is all just simple
math. Once you have more kids, the less time you can spend with each
one.
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