Overview

• Media outlets and local groups in Argentina are marking the observance with explanatory features and community events focused on middle-child roles
• The study led by Michael Ashton and Kibeom Lee analyzed over 710,000 HEXACO personality profiles and found middle-borns score higher in honesty-humility and agreeableness
• The researchers acknowledge mixed results in birth-order research and urge further studies across different cultural and family settings
• In La Plata’s Villa Elisa and Los Hornos districts, talks at venues like Biblioteca Popular de Los Hornos explore middle-child mediation and generational storytelling
• The so-called “middle child syndrome” remains a cultural label and is not recognized as a clinical disorder by the World Health Organization