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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's the middle child you lose the bond with, if you had it to begin with. The baby is often the favorite, or the one you are most connected to. The middle loses their role.[/quote]

This isn’t true for us at all.[/quote]

It wasn’t true for us either. This is probably the OP sock puppeting to keep the thread going. Emotionally healthy parents are bonded to all of their children and emotionally unhealthy parents are not. The OP clearly wants to make this into something negative about three kids, which says a lot about them - namely that they are emotionally unhealthy. [/quote]

I'm the PP and I'm not OP.

I'm glad for you that your family is emotionally healthy. Many families are not. It is very common for middle children to describe themselves as unseen or invisible and to struggle with self-confidence and feelings of belonging. If that's not your family, great. But OP asked if parents of 3 or more kids feel less bonded to their third, and IME, the more likely outcome is for parents to be less bonded to their second, IF bonding is an issue, which it isn't for everyone.

The level of defensiveness exhibited here does not really speak to emotional healthy, btw.[/quote]

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