Only child, so definitely. ha

to be honest.. i really dont think my parents ever had a favorite!!.. i think i got more, cuz i was OLDER, but sister gets just as much in different ways, soo they were really really good and keeping it as fair as the possibly could! there was never any jealous feelings between my sister and i growing up and there is none now!! good job mom and dad! haha

I completely disagree that one child is ALWAYS more favored. I think it's often a give-and-take. I went through periods where I was the favored child and other periods where my sister was.

I was the youngest by 11 years, I was more like an only child, so yes. I was also the only girl of 3.

My brothers are 13 and 11 years older than me, and my parents weren't as well off in that time in their life. So I guess I just got the good end.

Funny times.

I am the youngest of 4 girls. I wasnt spoiled but i did get away with alot.

I was the oldest, so I probably got the most attention...but I was more the black sheep of my family!
I don't think my parent had a FAVORITE, they tried to treat us all fairly...but being the oldest I did have it the toughest an strictest!

I was an only child. Who else would my parents buy things for?

I completely agree Greggie! I have 4 brothers and 2 sisters. I have a million little stories where someone got away with something they shouldn't have, or got something that (I thought) they didn't deserve... but the stories are pretty evenly distributed. I think good parents generally try to keep it fair!

My parents do not really have a favorite, they treat myself and my brother equally, except when my brother gets in trouble. The thing about my family is that I live right next door to my dads parents, and they basically raised me while my parents worked. MY grandparents treat my brother and myself different then they treat their other grandchildren, they treat us like their own kids and they do alot for us and they have always spoiled us and we do just as much for them. BEcause of the way they treat us it gets my aunts mad and it has kinda made my brother and myself the black sheep of the family.

OH YEAH...it was just my younger sister & me but even to this day i feel that my parents were always more proud of her than me-she got the degree,the director's position,married a more successful man,and i only worked my way up to my chef's position through sweat,humiliation & damn hard work & gave them their only "blood" grandchildren.they don't make it obvious,and i know they love me,but some of the stuff over these long years still stings....

I definitely think I'm more favored in a way. Mostly because my sister has behavioral problems and is a b*tch, so in contrast, I always look much better.

I was/am the black sheep. My oldest brother is only a half and I think my mother always treated him different because I think she felt he got left out (he never did). My sister is my dads first kid and the SUCK UP! My other brother had asthma and nearly died a few times, so he was always spoiled. Now they are all ungrateful SOB's, that treat my mother and father like like crap and think that they owe them something. Meanwhile, I'm still the one that is dying for their approval (even though I don't need it). I treat my kids all the same...I spoil them all!

I was and am not the favored child by a long shot. I was actually the neglected one. My absolute hoodlum sister has been the favorite since before I was born.

I have always been the favored child, but I believe it's because I've always been the "good one", or actually, the one who was slick enough to do the same as the others and not get caught! My parents know that now, but they still show me a little favoritism. I don't ask for it. I was just their easiest to raise.

Hardly...

I'm a middle child and always did well in school. I was the child who never needed or was given much attention because I was "safe" and always was good. They gave more attention and stuff to my rebellious older brother and my baby sister.

And no I'm not spiteful...

Ha.

I only have one sibling, an older sister and I am positive our parents don't have a favorite. I've never felt that way and neither has she.

my younger sister (by 2 years) would say that i was the favorite. but the only reason it would seem that way is because i kept out of trouble, worked hard in school, and was more level-headed. my sister takes for granted that she got away with a lot of things, and had less constraints on her than i did as the first child. you know, the new parents really "try" on the first one before they loosen the strings a bit. so, i'm not sure if that would be considered her being 'the favorite' but she did get much better treatment, i think.

I'm the youngest of the 5 children my parents had and DEFINITELY the favorite.

still am )

SusanTeufel, sounds like we have similar familes! My siblings are also 11 and 13 year old.

As a result, I think I'm favored b/c I got to spend more alone time with my parents.

I have one younger brother and he was the favored one. I was a bit of a rebellious and difficult teenager and I think my brother learned from me! He also was always very shy and introverted and didn't care much to be out late like I did. Although I don't blame my parents, I was a handful!!

My brother and I "take turns" being the favorite. It depends if one of us has screwed up bad enough to warrant the other one being the "favorite" for a while. Currently, though, I think it's me

My family is a big football family, and since I'm a girl, my brother is often the favored one.

I was an only child, so my parents had no other choice. However, my grandmother definitely favored me over her other grandchildren because my fair complexion. It is a really sad and wrong situation, but true. Because people who are fair are more valued in her country, she has always treated me differently than my cousins.

When my brother and I were young there was definitely not a favorite child. As we got older (teenager) my brother began acting up and got really mean spirited. At the age of 24 he is still (50% of the time) hard to get along with. It’s like walking on eggshells. Therefore.... I am favored only because I am easer to get along with. I hope he straitens out. It has been a struggle for the whole family

I have an older sister who's 11 years older. She always felt i was the favorite but to be honest i think My mom favored her more because she constantly compares me to her and how fantastic she is. But i will admit i do get alot but so does my sister.
Maybe my mom doesn't have a favorite?

I think favoring children is detrimental to their development and sociability. I was exasperatingly spoiled, favored, treated like a princess while my sister was not. We were the youngest two by a great deal, but it was as if I were an only child. My siblings resent me and I've had to work through a lot of entitlement and self-centered issues. It's so odd because I'm so generous and kind, but I still have those issues from the way I was raised. However, I wouldn't give up the love I felt for any kind of stable, boring personality.

My parents felt bad for me because i was an only child until i was 6 and i was spoiled. They had triplets and after that I had to become more independant..with that i became rebellious and i think subconsciously i did it for attention because i hated the fact that EVEN THOUGH i was still clearly the favorite, i had to compete with THREE siblings that were all 6 years younger than me.

I think I am the favored one just because back when my siblings were growing up they were not nearly as well off as they are now.

My brother is 5 years older than me and my sister is 6 years older.

They used to call me "oops" when we were younger and that really pissed me off.... But that's beside the point. I just got the lucky end of the deal with my age. My siblings have gotten plenty of things in their life time so far though. We all got our college educations paid for, so we don't have anything to complain about.

Only child here.... but definitely wasn't spoiled my parents were very good when it came to that.

I'm an only child, but my fiance` was NOT the favored child and he still has issues with his mother because of it. It makes me vow not to play favorites with my future children.

I was my mom's favorite and my sister was my dad's favorite.

My sister was the favourite because shes the baby...she's also the genius goody-goody and I'm the complete opposite... my parents classified me as "the rebel" although I didn't really do anything super crazy... but Jess gets whatever Jess wants, and if she doesn't get it NOW we have a problem! haha... I think I'm the only one who doesnt give in to her temper tantrums lol

Yes, i am the favorite. And ever since i moved away, my mom constantly talks about and how good i looked last time she say me, and my great new job, and how she loved my boyfriend to my sister, who is not the favorite. i love it b/c my sister is a pain.

I was the middle child. Pretty much everything was alway my fault even when it wasn't my fault.

Another only child here.

This a joke? Sounds sad. Why the heck would a family have favorites? I'm pretty sure familial love is unconditional. Lame topic.

My parents are divorced. I grew up with Dad, my bro grew up with Mom. You can guess who favors who.

Well.....I was the first girl after 4 boys and my father was thrilled to finally have a daughter. So while I wouldn't say I was the favorite, I was definitely a Daddy's Girl. My sister came along a year later, and she was a Momma's Girl, so I guess it balanced out. Don't know where the boys stood though. I think the girls stole all their thunder!

i think it depends on the day whether or no i or my sister is the favorite.

My sister and I were both good students, stayed out of serious trouble, etc. But she always had a lot more going on than me as far as her emotional issues went...she was probably a difficult child to raise. My parents had a hard time with her when she was a teenager. I'm the one that my parents never had to really worry about, I usually made good decisions.

But I can't say they favor me or her...they have given us both so much, more than I could ever have asked for.

Its sad that you state that there is ALWAYS a favorite which is not true.

My parents treated me and my two younger sisters pretty fairly, all of us got attention for different things. I'm the oldest so I have more responsibility & privileges, I'm also the goody goody and the "smart" one. Then my middle sister loves attention and is the one always in the spotlight with acting and singing. Then my youngest sister is the baby so obviously she gets attention for that.

My older brother and one of my younger sisters always claimed that I and my baby sister were the favorites, which may have been true for awhile, we were the easier of the 4 of us to deal with I think, but it's definitely changed now because we have a little brother who is 13 years younger than my youngest sister, so he is absolutely the favorite now..but its ok, I mean, he's almost like being an only child now because he's so much younger than the rest of us.

no favorites in my family.. but being the only girl has its advantages. *puppy eyes*

I was definitely more spoiled and got away with a lot more than my older brother, being the youngest and the only daughter, but I was also a much more difficult child--I was a little rebellious and my bro was an angel! So it's hard to tell....

i guess i'm the favored child ( well according to everyone)... but it sucks coz then parents expect a lot from you... and that's just too much pressure:(

i have to agree with sillybecky...

My sister thinks our half brother is my mom's favorite (her first child), my sister was definitely dad's favorite (his first child). I was generally ignored because I was well behaved and nerdy and to this day (I'm 26) because my brother and sister have more problems, my mom has more to say about them than me. I know my mom loves the three of us equally but I still get the least attention. My one feeling of vindication is that I've got two graduation pictures up in my mom's living room (high school and college) and my brother and sister only have their high school grad pics. I'd rather be my nerdy well-adjusted self than compete for parental attention and I feel good that I didn't cause my parents too much grief growing up.

I was the oldest of 4 girls, so I did feel like I got a lot of the slack for all the stuff they did and I definitely got in trouble WAY more than they did. But, at the end of the day, now that we are all grown up and in our 20s, It is totally even

My parents divorced when I was 5. I was my mother's favorite because I was her only child.

My father, OTOH, sent up franchises. His last child is his favorite, and it's absolutely nauseating to watch him pour out money and attention while he ignores the, oh, 6 who were born first.

(Yes, I'm bitter. He sent a tiny plant to my mother's funeral because he couldn't bear to be away from Her Majesty (she was 6) for 24 hours).