There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it – and here's betting they deny it a lot – they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent so do you.
My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later blended home – and then watched that home explode too.
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It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it – the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
