Favouritism

[Sharrilanda]

Did your parents/in-laws have a favourite child?
And did that favouritism transfer onto grandchildren?

Yes. My parents always very obviously favoured my brother, and his kids are by far their favourite now too. Still bothers me as a fully grown self-sufficient adult!

Hmm, see we're in a funny position in that my husband's sibling was/is the in-laws favourite, but our eldest child is most definitely the favourite grandchild (of 5)

That's what prompted my OP.
Wonder if anyone else has come across this.

It depends.

My uncle was favourite child. His daughter, my cousin was favoured dgc in terms of money spent on her, but my grandmother was always keen to let me know I was favoured grandchild as the eldest

I think we also had a special relationship that my cousin didn't have with her. Tbh I can't be bothered with that level of family politics.

I'm with you re the family politics @Fuckingpissedoff1234
All it does is create tensions.

Complicated, because my PILs favourite child married me, definitely not their favourite DIL/SIL (nothing particularly personal, I’m just a very different type of person to their daughters, who represent female normality to them), and our only child is their youngest grandchild by fifteen years, as we had him late and DH has much older siblings who had children early, so no real basis of comparison.