Did your parents play favorites among their kids?

[skygazer]

Mine did. I was my mom's favorite because I was the youngest and she spoiled me rotten. One of my older sisters was my dad's favorite and he always harped on the rest of us - "Why can't you be more like your sister?" which didn't do much except make us hate our sister. :rofl:

I don't think I did that to my kids... I hope not, anyway.

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. Not in my family; one boy, one girl and 10 years age difference.

It was impossible to play favorites. :D

[BlueIris]

2. Yep. My parents (sick fucks) treated my sister (the baby) about 1,000 times better than me.

Including providing her with the medical care they denied me and sending her to a university that was six times as expensive as mine was.

But that's how it goes in alcoholic families. And in families in which parents fuck up the raising of their first child, making her hate them, and then try to buy the affection of the second child so they don't feel like the shits that they are.

And people ask me why I only want to have one child.

[BrotherBuzz]

3. Yes and no

I was the middle child so I got mixed messages. :shrug:

[Bennyboy]

4. Oh yeah!

My parents have always favored my brother. What is funny is now that my parents are nearing the end of their lives he will have nothing at all to do with them. So now it is up to me to deal with them, especially my father who has hated me since before I was born. So much so he beat my mother the day she came homw with the news that she was pregnant with me claiming I could not have been his child.

[MagsDem]

5. Yes

The boys were treated liked princes, the girls like household slaves. And only the boys deserved a college education. And I'm ONLY 46, so it's not like women didn't go to college in those days. I got one anyway, but no thanks to them.

[Bjornsdotter]

6. You sound like a friend of mine

...the parents had 10 kids, 3 boys and 7 girls. The girls had to clean the house, make the dinners, take care of the younger kids and CLEAN the boys' rooms. The boys had their college education paid for,the girls had to pay their own.

Cheers

[MagsDem]

8. Oh it gets worse....

My Mother is a direct descendant of Susan B. Anthony. Such a direct descendant in fact that when they minted the Susan B coin she was invited to the Federal Reserve for the unveiling ceremony. When the newspaper interviewed her about it she said she "didn't think women deserved any special rights, though her personal opinion was that women were superior to men in almost every way (wink, wink -- ha ha!)."

Go figure.

[Bjornsdotter]

9. It certain makes you want to go

:wtf:

Although it's pretty cool that you are a direct descendant of Susan B Anthony. It seems those genes skipped your Mom.

Welcome to DU!

Cheers

[AlCzervik]

7. yes indeed, my sister was the perfect child and i was "The other one"

best thing i ever did was move far, far away and went home for a visit my Dad asked me if we would be moving back anytime soon--"Oh hell no". Turns out my sister married someone my Dad didn't like and likes even less the more years that pass, also my always size 2 somewhat conceited sister has expanded to a size 16 while my former size 18/20 self is gotten to a size 8.

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. No.

But my mother was overprotective of my brother, who is the youngest of three. He had developmental problems growing up and was diagnosed as an adult with Asperger's Syndrome. She's still overprotective of him, and he just turned 41 today. :P Guess that pattern's never gonna change...

[cobalt1999]

11. No, my parents had 5 boys.

We felt like a favorite if they called us by the correct name. I will say the rules got looser as time went on, but that wasn't because they favored the younger ones, it was because they were just tired out and broken down by us older ones.

[skygazer]

14. I'm one of six

4 girls, 2 boys. My mom would holler names until she got the right one, occasionally throwing in the dog's or cat's. I learned early on to answer to, "...whoever the hell you are!" :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Yes, and I'm an only child, so it was weird.

[bicentennial_baby]

13. Kinda...

I am Daddy's favorite, as I am his first born. My lil Bro is Mommy's favorite, as he is the baby and her last child. My sister kinda got the shaft, but she's not a very pleasant person, overall. She's the oldest. She is 9 yrs older than me, and I am 6 yrs older than my Bro. :shrug:

[undeterred]

15. Yes, but more as adults than as children.