How do you get siblings to be nice to each other? These Latino families have an answer

NPR National Public Radio ^ | April 24, 20247:27 AM ET | Michaeleen Doucleff

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To say Caitlynn cares for — and loves — her little sister would be a huge understatement. "My sister is my best friend in the entire world, and I tell people that all the time," she says proudly. "I don't think I could make it day to day without her. She's the person I turn to for everything."

This genuine love and kindness doesn't stop with her sister. She feels the same about her little brother, who's also still in high school. A few years ago, she seriously considered moving with him to Los Angeles to help support him financially during college.

"I was like, 'Look, Eddie, if that's what you really want to do, I'll pick up my life and I'll move over there. I'll get a job to support you while you go to college,''" she remembers. "Because I know how hard it was for me to work and go to college at the same time. So if he doesn't have to do that, then I wouldn't want him to do that." Sponsor Message

Caitlynn's mom, Cindy Almance, says her four children rarely fight. "Even at such a young age, their grandma was constantly telling them, 'You never fight,'" she says. "So even as teenagers, the girls didn't fight."

Over the past few decades, psychologists have begun to understand how parents, across many cultures, teach their children to build these deep, fulfilling relationships with their siblings. How parents teach their children to be kind to and care for their brothers and sisters.

Psychologist Belinda Campos has been researching this question in families with East Asian, European and Latino heritage. "As far as Latinos go, studies have looked at how parents intentionally teach children to focus on and prioritize family over themselves."

[HighSierra5]

So 23 get along with the other 23?

[Jonty30]

Sibling rivalry is a myth,

It’s war.

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t know about siblings because I haven’t observed that.

But I’ve noticed that women in other cultures - particularly Hispanic and Asian - seem to bond with one another and value female friendships more than American women do. There doesn’t seem to be as much rivalry...

[HIDEK6]

I was going to click over to read the rest of the article, then I saw it was from NPR.

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You threaten to pull the car over.

[Gay State Conservative]

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This carries over to the elderly. Unlike the US, where the elderly are often sent to “care facilities”, where the value of their lives quickly erodes away, at the “retirement communities” in northern Mexico, for a fraction of the cost in the US, they get full service care, with competent, English speaking staff including Nurses and Doctors, housekeeping, landscaping, cooking, etc.

[Steven Tyler]

Latin families pure and virtious
Therefore, illegals pure and virtious

Therefore regular American families not pure and virtious, but horrible and racist and....