The study found that gender, birth order and a child’s temperament can shape whether a child is favored by their parents. In Jensen’s family, there was a justifiable explanation for why the ...

A new study from Brigham Young University found that parental favoritism is real and that factors like gender, birth order and a child's temperament can serve as influences. The study, which was ...

This may not feel like news if you have siblings and a long-standing hunch that one of you could rob a bank and still be the golden child. But a new study suggests parents really do have a ...