Sentences with phrase «favored over their sibling»

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Sometimes they will reject one parent or one sibling in favor of another, or favor one grandparent over another.

It makes sense that natural selection would favor sparing siblings that share genes, much the same way that many animals tend to preferentially help siblings over unrelated animals.

Kids Health recommends that parents avoid creating the perception that one child's needs are favored over that of another by staying out of sibling conflicts.

Both theory and research on within - family differences suggest that when parents» health declines, sibling relations may be affected by which children assume care and whether siblings perceive that the parent favors some offspring over others.

Thus, we hypothesized that adult children who perceived their mothers as favoring some children over others as caregivers would report the greatest tension in their relationships with their siblings, regardless of which child they believed was favored.

Maybe the parents are favoring one child over the other, and that is creating sibling conflict and needs to be balanced out in Family Therapy.

Your «assistance» could be construed as meddling and favoring one of the siblings over others.