Literature Review: Why Siblings Choose A Different Path In Life

Why Siblings Choose A Different Path in Life

Siblings reared in the same household often lead different adult lives. They quite often choose a different path in life. Several factors are thought to contribute to siblings and their different experiences and perspectives in their childhood. Parental influence and family environment are just a few factors related to siblings choosing different life paths. In this paper, the following ten literature reviews will attempt to support this hypothesis.

In a research article by Jensen and McHale (2015), siblings are 50% genetically similar, on average, however, full biological siblings are typically no more similar to one another than they are to strangers. The information concluded that the major

Twins and also adopted siblings were used for this study. This research article is divided into four sections. Each section leads to the reason why siblings living in the same family/household are different; have different personalities. The first section deals with the review and critique of the methodology of behavioral genetics that’s lead to conclusions that shared family environment is not important but the non shared environment is. The second section is about how the family is conceptualized in developmental psychology. The third section discusses some work in developmental psychology that shows why siblings living in the same family don’t share the same environment. And last, section four examines the sibling’s similarities and how these can also come about despite the environmental

The brothers home experiences were different due to their father’s death. They were different ages and therefore in a sense grew up in different homes/environments. Siblings existence has a profound influence on each other’s lives.

In the article by Michael Eric Dyson (2008) Two Brothers, Two Paths: Shades of Race, though it discusses race it also briefly discusses two brothers that grew up together but who have taken two totally different paths in life. Michael points out that he didn’t feel that he was any better than his brother. Michael is a professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and his brother was in prison.

Results from this article moreover, shares that differences between siblings are one’s own doing and societal views. This article could have delved more into the upbringing and the two brothers. But all in all, it shared the reason for the different life