Do Parents Have Favorite Children?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:29.8	Do parents have favorite children?
0:33.2	Yes.
0:34.4	Of course they do.
0:36.5	Just like you have favorite friends and favorite relatives.
0:40.2	Yes.
0:42.6	Yes.
0:45.3	Special treatment, closer bonding, spending more time, being nicer.
0:53.9	Wow. And even goes to the next generation, the less favorite kids, kids get less attention.
1:08.8	And you can say, it shouldn't be.
1:13.3	Parents shouldn't feel.
1:19.3	Like they like one kid over another.
1:21.3	Well, you can say shouldn't.
1:22.7	All you want, it happens because we're human.
1:27.3	I mean, it should be no leap for you to understand that the
1:32.3	kid who's easier to get along with is going to be favored. The kid who's easier to get along
1:39.0	with who does the things the parents yearn to have a kid do,
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