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"There's a lot of psychological literature on why first-born children are most successful.
A new study shows first-born children are more able and ambitious.
Conventional wisdom says that only children are lonely, maladjusted and selfish, and that first-born children are bossy overachievers.
They will influence the long-running debate about why first-born children are typically more successful than their younger siblings.
First-born children scored higher on tests including reading, matching letters, names, reading single words aloud and picture vocabulary tests.
First-born children have been found to be more suspectible to asthma than younger brothers or sisters.
The authors said a prior analysis suggested myopia was more common in first-born children compared with later-born children.
The Government's school admission watchdog, Dr Elizabeth Passmore, said the practice is restricting choice for first-born children of other families.
Women may reach out to women for certain help, and men to men, but there is less solidarity among, say, first-born children.
Otherwise, only children seem to be reassuringly like everybody else.High achieversA rival school of thought, however, sees only and first-born children as high achievers in later life.
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