My Favorite Author This Semester

My favorite author this semester would have to be Frank Sulloway. I found his work on birth order and sibling competition to be very interesting. I myself have a mixture of adopted, half, and whole siblings so I am still not quite sure what my exact birth order is. It's really interesting to learn what his perspective is on the subject and how his theories actually match up with a person's birth order and personality. In reading his work, the reader learns that according to Sulloway, parents treat each child differently depending on their birth order. I technically think that I am the middle child in my family. I grew up with my two sisters; one older and one younger. My brothers never lived with me so I don't think I should count them in this situation. “The middleborn is never alone in the family,” Sulloway has said. “When you’re the middle child, you’re getting only a third of everything. The only way for parents to invest equally in their offspring is for them to systematically favor the middle child. That almost never happens.”