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New Study Shows Remarkable Ways Parents Treat Their Firstborns and Secondborns Differently

Mom Reading Book to Two Kids

Firstborns are more sociable to their moms, the study suggests.

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A new study published in the journal suggests something many people with siblings suspected all along: moms really do parent

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