While birth order is known to influence people’s personality traits and behavior, whether you’re the cautious firstborn or the risk-taking youngest child, that’s not the only way it affects your life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sibling birth order can affect your health and well-being in different ways. (Getty Images) (Westend61 via Getty Images) While ...

Daughters, particularly the eldest, are viewed as karmic figures in families, tasked with addressing generational debts and ...

"With each subsequent child, parents tend to relax to a greater extent what they might deem as non-essential needs for their kids," a researcher told Today The stereotype about oldest children being ...

A controversial Norwegian study suggests eldest children have an IQ edge. June 22, 2007— -- Given the choice, 9-year-old Carlyle Quinn would spend all day with his microscope, while younger ...