Famous Firstborn Oprah Winfrey has many of the stereotypical qualities of a firstborn child. She is ambitious, successful, and seems to be a natural leader. But her example also highlights some of the problems with making generalizations about birth order and personality. Studies on birth order focus on full-blood siblings, yet Winfrey had two half-siblings growing up, and discovered a third half-sibling in 2010 (Allen, 2011, January 24).
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