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Lucy Wigley

'You have a hard life if you're the eldest daughter in the family' - do you agree that first daughters have it harder?

Three sisters hugging.

If you're an eldest daughter, you might find you're subjected to Eldest Daughter Syndrome, and I'm interested to hear about your experiences.

If you're also the eldest female child and happen to be mixing midlife, menopause, teenagers, and are living in that high-pressure sandwich generation era, the stress of your birth order position takes on a new and entirely torturous meaning.

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