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The MIL of one of my siblings does this. I see it with her own children where she favors one son over the other kids.

This has carried through to the grand kids. She favors one child in each family. I find it to be really unpleasant and harmful. If I can avoid seeing her, I do. The grand kids are now adults  and all the cousins talk about it. [/quote]

I had that growing up.  Grandparents favored each of their kids in a definite pecking order (with my parent being at the bottom).  Same followed for the grandkids.  What happens is I didnt' care to visit them once I was old enough to have a choice.  It's no fun going to see family and having them rave about "how great and smart and talented" your cousins are (from their gold child parent), when you yourself actually did 1000X "better" (did much better in HS, went to a T10 college and got into several others, was way more talented in my musical activities and went on to major in music as one major at a T5 music school, etc) So who wants to spend time with someone who doesn't acknowledge you as a person and just wants to talk about your cousins?  So I stopped going.

Btw, the cousin I had to constantly hear about is my favorite cousin and we are very close and now live in the same area (2K miles from the rest of the "family") .  But as a teen/20 something, you realize not to waste your time with family who only wants to brag to you about their other grandkids
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