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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you who have siblings that you hate, how much of that is due to the sibling, and how much do you think it has to do with your parents?  Barring giving birth to a child with a mental illness, personality disorder, etc., are sibling relationships really a total crapshoot?
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Well, a "total crapshoot" has a negative connotation.  LOL!  But, you cannot predict how sibling relationships will play out over time.  There are so many variables with one being the personality of the kids themselves.  I have 4 kids (all teens) and they get along fine - but there have been issues (especially with the middle two) and who knows whether they will be close as adults.  They have had to split financial resources and parental attention 4 ways.  But they have also had 3 other people who know them better than anyone.  We did not have them because we wanted the other kid(s) to have a sibling.  We felt that we had a lot of love (and the resources) for other children.  We had them for the family as a whole.

No of course, I am the middle child in my family and I have not seen my older sister in 5 years and I talk to my younger one sporadically (although both have kids that are close to my kids).  We were tight as kids but fell out as adults over elder parent care issues.  [/quote]

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