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shown that first born children are more responsible, rational and view the world as more predictable. They are likely to be independent, ambitious and more sensitive to social acceptance. This is because as the eldest in family there are made responsible for other members during the absence of the father. Parents serve as a models with which children strongly identify. Family does contribute to the development of personality of the individual. For example, the common incidence occuring in most family, during the adolescent period an individual personality is in a crucial stage, at this point of time the family either recognizes the individual as a child nor an adult. When an individual tries to comment on certain family happenings, the parent snub him by says he is still a child, but whom in a different circumstance the same individual is asked to behave like an adult.
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