First child 'is more successful'

Clearly as an eldest child I feel this has been born out in my life!

BBC NEWS | Health | First child ‘is more successful’: “First-born children are more ambitious and more successful than their younger brothers and sisters, it has been claimed.

They are serious and determined and are more likely to enter a profession, such as law or medicine.

Middle children are easy-going and gregarious, have more friends and have better people skills.

The youngest child, in contrast, is a charmer and manipulator who loves to get his own way. “