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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t remember the article, but there was a study done years back. They looked at hundreds of families with multiple children. Parents were surveyed, asked to fill out questionnaires and interviewed. What the study showed is that while parents thought they were treating their kids equitably were actually not. Unknowingly or unconsciously they actually had preferential treatment with certain kids. [/quote]

I believe this! I can unequivocally say that my eldest sister and middle sister are the favorites. Always provided with what they wanted, given what the asked constantly, allowed to do less at home, etc. yet my parents always claim they treated us all equally. [/quote]

Everything revolves around my oldest sister and always have. She is automatically listened to, her needs are automatically prioritized. When I try to speak up and get my needs met, I am treated like a spoiled pain in the neck. All I am doing is asking for, like, 25 percent of what she gets.

(Example: my parents have a five bedroom house. I would like one bedroom to sleep in on the holidays with my husband. She wants all four - one for her and her husband, one so each kid can sleep alone in a bedroom. She tells me there isn't enough room for me. My parents nod understandably "because she has kids." My middle sibling just doesn't fight it and winds up getting a hotel room. We either sleep at my aunt's or sleep on the pullout in the den which the kids stream into when they wake up. I am considered a brat for asking for one bedroom or for the kids to stay out of the den till after eight am.)[/quote]

I would literally just not go and tell them why. [/quote]

I agree. Stop going.[/quote]

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