1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: Er and Amanda. I saw a social media post on 2 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 1: the weekend that said, the fact that middle children are 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: going extinct is the most middle child thing I've ever heard. 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: It's true, and this is true. Middle children are dwindling. 5 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: In the seventies, it was common to have three or 6 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:24,159 Speaker 1: four children. Today, almost sixty five percent of women with 7 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: children only have one or two, So the middle child 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: is becoming increasingly rare. 9 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: You're from a pair, yep. 10 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 1: I've got an older brother and me, so don't. I 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: don't know the middle child thing. Is it true that 12 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 1: middle children, if you've got more, if you've got three, 13 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 1: factions appear. 14 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 2: Yeah. 15 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: Maybe always pairings off. 16 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:48,279 Speaker 2: We've got three, you've got four. I've got three. 17 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: Kids, which meant you were from a family of four. 18 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 2: Well, you know, I've got three of my own kids. 19 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: Yes, And do you find that. 20 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 2: Rast thought I was the oldest. That's great. The oldest 21 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 2: is great, king of world, you're king of the castle. 22 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 2: The youngest is good as well, because you get all 23 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 2: the stuff where everyone moves out and the parents are 24 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:09,919 Speaker 2: a bit more lax about things I drinking and borrowing 25 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 2: the car and all the stuff that they used to 26 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 2: crack the whip on me about my youngest got away 27 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:16,199 Speaker 2: with more than I did? 28 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,839 Speaker 1: Well, your daughter romany? Is it? Then? The middle child? 29 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 2: She's the little Marsha Brady. 30 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:26,399 Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. The most famous middle child was 31 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:31,039 Speaker 1: this one, Marcia Martia Marcia. There are common stereotypes about 32 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: middle children that they're considered to be neglected, therefore resentful, 33 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: they have no drive, they have a negative outlook, they 34 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: don't they feel like they don't belong. The middle child 35 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: syndrome has often been written about. Do you think your 36 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: daughter has the middle child syndrome? Actually, the needy one does. 37 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: She sandwiched between the boys though, so there's two boys 38 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 2: and a girl, so I think that works out well. 39 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 2: So she gets a lot of. 40 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: Attention, right, Yeah, because in popular culture, and I don't know, 41 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: because I didn't grow up in a family where there 42 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: were three and I've only got two sons myself, they 43 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: were always seen as the ones who are always winging. Yeah, 44 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: like like jan like jam Jack say, what the problem is? 45 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 2: You have to wait in line for everything around here, 46 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 2: so it's always borrowing your things. I never have any 47 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 2: privacy because I've got too many brothers and sisters. I 48 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 2: wish I were an only child. 49 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: Was that an episode where things went wild a child? 50 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: I'm guessing that that's where that story went. 51 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 2: Bidden sheets and chains to scare people from buying the house. 52 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: Plan one interesting social advent if middle children do disappear. 53 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 1: But also we're facing the end of cousins. They're talking 54 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,959 Speaker 1: about the concept of changing families also includes the great 55 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Speaker 1: cousin decline. The family trees are no longer wide, they're 56 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: tall because there's less branches. People are having less children, 57 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: so you there are less cousins, less offshoots to the 58 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: family tree in the seventies, the declining cousins from the 59 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: average of seven cousins in the seventies to four or 60 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: five right now. So cousins are declining. And what they 61 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: think that means is that even though cousins aren't necessarily 62 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 1: the foremost relationship in your life, we got used to 63 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: get a lot of advice from cousins because they didn't 64 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: have the emotional pressure points that would if you got 65 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: advice or sort help from a sibling. 66 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 2: So cousins were important unmuch Your Lebanese, My Lebanese mate, 67 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 2: he's got a million cousins, four of them are panel beaters. 68 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: Well, aren't you lucky. The way you ride your bike, 69 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: that's very lucky.