middle child English

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What does middle child mean?

middle child noun

— (psychology) In an immediate family containing three children, the child who is neither the oldest nor the youngest, often believed to receive less parental attention than do his or her two siblings and to have skills as a mediator.

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Social behavior Relationships Kinship Related by birth

Birth order

• What words refer to the order in which a child was born?
  oldest youngest firstborn second born last born middle child

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News and current affairs

WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS - Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle-aged child.