Who is the luckiest child in the family?

Family types and the individual position of children within this community, their experiences, challenges, and opportunities are different. It is important that families give equal attention, love, and respect to each child, recognize their personalities, abilities, and needs, and provide them with appropriate support, guidance, and education. In this way, each child will continue their life as a happy, successful, and healthy individual, regardless of their place in the family.

First children are usually responsible, disciplined, strong leaders, successful, and academically high-performing. However, first children may also face high expectations, pressure, and criticism from their families. This causes them to be stressed, anxious, perfectionistic, and competitive. When siblings are born, they have to share their parent's attention, leading to feelings of jealousy, anger, and loneliness.

The last children are usually spoiled, coy, playful, funny, cute, cozy, and cheerful. As the youngest and last member of the family, the last children receive more attention, love, and protection. This contributes to them being self-confident, brave, risk-taking, and innovative. However, the last children can also be dependent, irresponsible, and need the approval of others because their parents and siblings are overprotective and overbearing.

If certain opportunities are not given to children within the family, the following may occur:

- Negative events such as violence, abuse, neglect, poverty, divorce, death, illness, disease, addiction, crime, migration, and war in the family may negatively affect the child's physical, mental, and emotional health, education, future and social adaptation.

- Discrimination, favoritism, pressure, high expectations, criticism, blaming, rejection, ignoring, overprotection, control, and interference in the family may negatively affect the child's self-confidence, self-esteem, autonomy, happiness, and personality development.

- Failure to provide a suitable environment for the child's needs, interests, abilities, preferences, values, and goals in the family may hinder the child's potential, creativity, success, and satisfaction.

These situations can affect each child in the family differently. Some children may be strong, resilient, adaptive, and positive in coping with these situations, while others may be weak, fragile, maladaptive, and negative. Therefore, the unluckiest child in the family is the one who is most exposed to the impact of these situations, receives the least support, achieves the least, and is the least happy.

As a result, the unluckiest child in the family is the one who shows the least resistance against the negativities experienced inside and outside the family, has the least resources, shows the least development, and feels the least satisfaction. These children need to be supported, protected, educated, and rehabilitated by the family, school, society, and the state. In order not to be the unluckiest child in the family, families need to provide their children with love, respect, trust, interest, understanding, support, freedom, responsibility, values, and norms, and for children to show their families love, respect, trust, interest, understanding, support, harmony, responsibility, values and norms.