Mental health experts reveal how birth order affects well-being and how you can prioritize your joy.

Does your eldest daughter often complain about being tired of taking responsibility for their younger siblings or taking care of other household matters? Then, she is most likely experiencing eldest ...

Psychologist Alfred Adler came up with the concept of the "family constellation" to describe the way family members relate to each other. Adler believed that family dynamics had a big impact on ...

Because of the way they were parentified and forced to take on too much responsibility growing up, here are 10 unfortunate ways eldest daughters often push away good relationships without realizing it ...

Let me set the scene: The year is 2002, and I’m at Hershey’s Park with my family and three family friends. It’s the most humid day of the year, and the sweet smell of chocolate feels nausea-inducing ...

Across American households, millions of women navigate adult relationships while carrying invisible emotional baggage accumulated during childhood. These eldest daughters, thrust into premature ...

Who plans the agenda for vacations in your family? Who's the first to step up to care for mom and dad or grandma and grandpa? Who's the one organizing family holidays? Chances are if you have an older ...

There he is, between two worlds. Too young to have been the pioneer, too old to be the darling. The middle child, often precariously poised between the studious eldest and the "spunky" youngest, doesn ...

Note: This post contains mention of suicide. 1."I was the eldest daughter and undiagnosed autistic. My little sister was the favorite. I was constantly being compared to her and was punished for ...

[Editor’s note: This piece contains spoilers for Hal & Harper.] In the most universally disliked track on her new album The Life Of A Showgirl, Taylor Swift attempts to explain the burden of being the ...

Eldest daughters are like the second 'mums' in the family. It's Eldest Daughter's Day. Life gets so busy and activities move fast; it can be overwhelming without the occasional reflection to pause and ...

I'm a very different parent to my youngest, who is 13, than I was to my eldest at that age. Some of that change is due to technology, but I also understand child development better now. I monitor all ...