# What's Your Birth Ordinance? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 18, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089 "2008-09-18T02:48:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/1 "2008-09-18T02:48:20Z")
Just curious if there’s any pattern or plurality to Dopers, either as a whole or as subcategories (conservative/liberal, religious/irreligious, gay/straight, etc.). I’m the youngest child/second son of three children. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/2 "2008-09-18T02:55:41Z")
I’m my dad’s youngest, my mom’s middle, and the only son. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/3 "2008-09-18T02:58:58Z")
Dad’s second, Mom’s first. And only. ---
**Author:** ![taterbug3918](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@taterbug3918](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taterbug3918)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/4 "2008-09-18T03:02:55Z")
I’m the youngest. Dad’s 4th child and third girl, and my mom’s second child and only daughter. ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/5 "2008-09-18T03:06:35Z")
I’m both of my parents only child/daughter. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/6 "2008-09-18T03:09:04Z")
3 of 5 children. Yay middles! 2nd of 4 daughters. Oh, same Mom & Dad for all 5 kids. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/7 "2008-09-18T03:13:30Z")
Youngest of three, second daughter. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/8 "2008-09-18T03:14:20Z")
Man, I hate fielding this question IRL. It should be so simple, but it just isn’t. I’m the only child of my biological parents. However, I have two stepbrothers who have been part of my life and my parents’ life since before my birth - they are the biological children of the woman who was my mother’s best friend and later became my stepmother. (Very Springeresque.) My bio-mom babysat the boys a lot when they were little, before and after I was born. When I was 6, their mom married my dad, and I lived with them during the summers, but not during the school year. So I’m an only child with two older brothers. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/9 "2008-09-18T03:18:03Z")
To limit it to parents: Oldest child, first of two for father and only son, first of three for mother and first son. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/10 "2008-09-18T03:28:04Z")
Older sis, me, younger bro. Sis is older by 2.5 years and bro younger by 9 years. I never really got the whole story of whether he was a “whoops at the end” or if they changed their mind about having just two or what. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/11 "2008-09-18T03:36:41Z")
Youngest of three girls, and there’s a 7 and 8 year age difference between me and my sisters. Same parents for all of us. ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/12 "2008-09-18T04:48:24Z")
Older of 2 males by a little over 3 years. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/13 "2008-09-18T04:50:04Z")
Oldest of two. I have a younger brother. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/14 "2008-09-18T05:00:01Z")
Middle child of three. Both parents only children. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/15 "2008-09-18T05:00:06Z")
I’m my mum’s only child and the eldest of my dad’s three children (all sons). (Growing up, I identified as an only child, but nowadays I see myself as the eldest of three.) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/16 "2008-09-18T05:37:20Z")
Third girl of five girls. Same parents for all. ETA: I agree with **WhyNot** - this question can be made very difficult. I am from a family of five girls, but I have three sisters because our youngest sister died at four years old. I am never sure how to answer the question of how many kids in my family - I always have to kind of figure out if they mean how many I have now, or how many were born to my parents. I’m always a little concerned that people think I’m lying about my family - “You said you have three sisters, but now you’re saying four sisters. What gives?” ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/17 "2008-09-18T05:37:28Z")
Only child. However I have had two step-brothers ( one roughly my age, the other two years older ) since I was in 6th grade and I grew up with them in the same household from a little before 8th grade on and into my first couple of years of college. Briefly a much younger step-sister, but that was a quickly and disastrously failed marriage and nobody stayed in touch. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/18 "2008-09-18T05:37:46Z")
Oldest of 4. (my moms first, her 2nd is my stepdads first) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/19 "2008-09-18T05:41:00Z")
Oldest of two by six years. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089/20 "2008-09-18T05:43:26Z")
Oldest of two. My brother is the good one. But I didn’t own any ordinance at birth. Wasn’t given so much as a bb gun until I was 4, and no shotgun until I was 10. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-birth-ordinance/464089.md?page=2)