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Some people do not make good children. They should spring upon the world fully grown, preferably with a gin and tonic in hand, and conversation in full swing....

Margaret Morley, Larger than Life — A Biography of Robert Morley

People in the birth order of oldest children are probably among the most over-studied sibling groups in the world. Researchers have shown great interest in oldest children for many years, and there is general agreement among them about the characteristics that are common to most oldest children. However, the majority of the studies have used oldest males as subjects, and they haven’t taken into account the differences in sex of the oldest or of the following siblings. They have generalized from male oldests to all oldests.

But the sex of the oldest and the sex and number of siblings who follow the oldest play a crucial role in the final personality development, as the following two chapters on oldest brothers and oldest sisters illustrate.