Filipino Children's Roles And Responsibilities Are Shaped By Birth Order Research Paper

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Filipino Children’s Roles and Responsibilities are Shaped by Birth Order “ In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on the that role: the good child, the black ship, the clown and so forth.” (Ellen Gallensky). Children tend to have these hats with them till they become adults. Those hats serve as what they are and what they should do in the family, it is like their roles hanged on their shoulders as an effect of stereotypes. Each person has his own roles and responsibilities which he may be taken naturally and through how he was nurtured. Role as defined is set of connected behaviours, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualised by people in a social situation. ( Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia ). These roles may come as it is because it is an expected changing behaviour and may have a given individual social status due to his position or order in his family for others look at it as one factor of qualification in some fields and aspects, like applying for a job and in marrying. It is believed that the roles of each child in his family and to the society is affected by his birth order. It may be through how an individual is shaped or affected by the expectations of the society according to his order in the family, in this case it may also be called as stereotypes. These stereotypes may sometime had good and bad effects to children for if they are able to compromise with they are supposed to be in people’s eyes and if not they may come up of having psychological effect in their behaviour and deeds for they can’t be what is expected. But what is the birth order? Birth order is th... ... middle of paper ... ...pment/sibling-issues/how-birth-order-shapes-personality/ Scutti, Susan. ( October 22 2013) . First Born Children Do Better In School: Parents 'Play Tough' With Oldest To Set Example For Younger Siblings. In Medical Daily. Retrieved December 2013, from http://www.medicaldaily.com/first-born-children-do-better-school-parents-play-tough-oldest-set-example-younger-siblings-260564 The Birth Order Effect (2013) In angelfire.com. Retrieved December 2013, from http://www.angelfire.com/planet/birthorder/page2.html Voo, Josephine. (August, 2006). Birth order Personality. In Parents magazine. Retrieved on December 2013, from http://www.parents.com/baby/development/social/birth-order-and-personality/ Walcutt, Diana. (2009). Birth Order and Personality. Psych Central. Retrieved on December 2013, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/07/22/birth-order-and-personality/

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