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The Family Ranking
THE HIDDEN RULE
“The favorite was chosen years ago, and my rank is permanent.” Suitor and Pillemer's within-family studies found that adult children who perceive a favorite — or a least-favored — carry more depressive symptoms into midlife. The ranking keeps collecting its tax decades after the childhood that wrote it.
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Parental Differential Treatment (PDT)
Parental differential treatment is the research term for parents relating differently to different children — in warmth, conflict, support, or expecta
Sibling Deidentification
Sibling deidentification is the tendency of brothers and sisters, especially those close in age, to actively develop and emphasize different interests
The Favoritism Denial Gap
The favoritism denial gap describes the documented mismatch between how often parents privately hold a favorite child and how rarely they admit it pub
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