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Is There Something Extra-Special -- And Extra-Stressful -- Between Sisters?

Much has been made about Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer, the writer whose gang violence memoir, Love and Consequences, turned out to be a fabrication. But, the New York Times asks today, what of Cyndi Hoffman, Peggy's older sister? Hoffman is the one who turned "tattletale" and blew the whistle on Peggy. Her own sister. "We have powerful expectations of loyalty from a sister," Marcia Millman, sociology professor and author of The Perfect Sister: What Draws Us Together, What Drives Us Apart tells the Times. "But along with the idealized image of sisters, that they are always close, there is a stereotype that sisters are very competitive. It's the two extremes." They say blood is thicker than water, but is the truth thicker than blood? More »

1:00 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Dodai
5,477 views, 172 comments

Latest by lola82: Dude, my big sister ratted my ass out for shit I didn't even do when we lived together...we tolerate each other know. The Unabomber's brother "ratted" him out. Thank jesus. Would I rat her out over a book? I dunno. Guess it more »

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The Younger Kardashian Sisters Are In-House Underminers

Last night, in honor of the temporarily-departed Tracie "Slut Machine" Egan, I checked out the season premiere of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. And I was kinda fascinated! The storyline was simple: Older sister Kourtney was suffering through a relationship blip with her boyfriend Scott, and her younger sisters, Kim and Khloe, were partly to blame. The two had gone through Scott's cellphone text messages looking for dirt, and, once they found it, were less than sympathetic to their older sister's conflicting emotions about her (maybe) cheating boyfriend. Khloe in particular, reminded me of the sort of underminer-y "best" friend who creates conflict and then tries to control the narrative once she's let the cat out of the bag, so to speak. By the end of the show, Scott and Kourtney had made up, but not before Khloe got a few words in edgewise. Clip above.

7:00 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Anna
6,030 views, 53 comments

Latest by n/a: This is exactly the kind of trashy, mindless tv show that is lacking in my life right now. I wish I had a TV!! more »

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Are First-Borns More Successful Than Younger Siblings?

You've probably heard the sterotype that first-born children are leaders and go-getters, whereas their younger siblings are spoiled troublemakers. Several scientific studies are finding that there's truth behind that thinking, reports the Wall Street Journal. The piece is a response to a larger story by Jeffrey Kluger in the new issue of Time, which asserts that birth order influences behavior in several ways:
Families bestow greater resources and attention on the first-born, and eldest children often adopt the role of caretaker toward younger siblings. A Philippine study found that later-born siblings weigh less than earlier-borns. According to a Norwegian study, the eldest child enjoys on average a three-point IQ advantage over the next eldest sibling, a gap attributed to the older kids' roles as mentors to the younger children. These advantages might explain why eldest children are overrepresented among board directors, M.B.A.s and surgeons.
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5:30 PM on Fri Oct 19 2007
By Dodai
2,991 views, 49 comments

Latest by BadenBaden: Meh. This study is lame. more »