She texted me on my birthday last year. Just the standard message—”Happy birthday! Hope you’re doing well!—with a balloon emoji that felt like it came from a stranger. I stared at it for a while. This ...

Research on adult sibling relationships suggests that the transition to adulthood is a critical period for sibling bonds. If ...

I’m the oldest of six kids, which meant I was basically an unpaid assistant parent tasked with maintaining order in what can only be described as a feral child circus. My brother—just 11 months ...

There are two common assumptions about the relationships between brothers and sisters. The first is that these relationships are the longest of our lives. In having two or more children, parents might ...

Source: Clker-Free-Vector-Images/Pixabay, used with permission. Adoption is not without controversy, as evidenced by many reports of microaggressions directed toward adoptive family members from those ...

These common parenting gaffes set siblings up for a lifetime of conflict. Sibling relationships are complicated, and while some rivalry is normal in childhood, whether or not brothers and sisters stay ...

BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL, September 30, 2025 – A new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) sheds light on how a firstborn child's behavior after the arrival of a sibling can predict the ...

Dear Annie: My sister and I were once inseparable. We talked every day, shared everything and leaned on each other through some of life’s hardest moments — including our parents’ divorce and the loss ...

The message from my sister appears beneath a blue and gray stream of similar, brief exchanges. “Call me back” she wrote in one text, followed by a dramatic line of exclamation points. “Sorry I’m in ...