Birth order and sexual strategy

Birth order and sexual strategy§

According to F. J. Sulloway [Sulloway, F. J. (1996). Born to rebel. New York: Pantheon], firstborns can minimize the diversion of parental investment to younger siblings by upholding their parents’ beliefs, or the parental ‘‘status quo.’’ Maintenance of the status quo may translate into the pursuit of different sexual strategies as a function of birth order. Accordingly, Sulloway hypothesized t...

Fraternal birth order effect on sexual orientation explained.

Twenty years ago, Ray Blanchard and Anthony Bogaert demonstrated that the probability of a boy growing up to be gay increases for each older brother born to the same mother, the so-called fraternal birth order (FBO) effect. Their first investigation indicated that each older brother increased the probability of being gay by about 33% (1). This startling phenomenon was confirmed in multiple stud...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy

BIRTH ORDER AND ARTISTIC CREATIVITYl

Alfred Adler IS believed to have first presented his views on birth order in 1918 (2, p. 382). With regard to the first born, Adler held that he is typically more conservative than his later-born siblings, due to the first born's being dethroned by the second child, from his position of the little king of the family. Recent research in the field of specific personality patterns for the various ...

Birth order and college misconduct.

Although social researchers have been giving increasing attention to the effect of sibling position on personality formation and on subsequent behavior, in the past thirty years birth order as a factor in antisocial and problem behavior has been ignored. Yet earlier findings (3, 10, II, 13, 15) indicated that this relationship merited further study. Adler (I, pp. 376-382) held that first-borns ...