Most RN's first borns?

[madwife2002]

Hi everybody,

I have a question and PLEASE dont anybody blast me for typecasting, this was not MY statement, it was a LCSW I was friends with. She claims that a huge percentage of nurses are first born females of alcoholic fathers.

Something to do with the fact that as the first born in dysfunction family of origin you are a caregiver from the get-go. Now my father was not an alcoholic, but I am a first born. I was wondering how many of us are first-borns.

(Also, she said this to me a long time ago, and I have lost touch with her, so I cannot ask her where the heck she got her information was)

I was just starting school at the time and didnt really fight with her about it, just kind of gave her one of the Hmmm, thats an interesting opinion.... answers. Also, she meant it as a compliment, that we take a difficult beginning and build on our strengths and turn them into a career.

So, how many first borns are out there?

[anorexicPIG]

wah!! i dont think so..m d 4th child among 5..and m d only one hus interested in medical science..whether ur the eldest..middle..or the youngest..it doesnt really make sense..as logn as ur willign to extend without stint service to ur fellowmen..naks!

[chipmunk_princess]

well..you got me thinking there...but you have a point...i mean i am the eldest...i know some friends who are the eldest...and those i know who took up nursing and not the eldest mostly have bros. & sis. who are nurses...although i do not have a dad who is a drunkard...Maybe the eldest daughter mostly become nurses bec. of the pressure placed unto them being the eldest just same with the pressure of having an alcoholic father...

[andrew]

me... no words to say at least this one im the middle child hehehe... my sister which is a nurse already was the 1st born... thanks

[BoN]

WE are four I am the youngest, 3 of them are nurses abroad, it took me a while before i enrolled in nursing. My father is an alcoholic, chain smoker, diabetic II with HPN, I encourage him more not to stop afterall those health teaching we had for him, I wish him not to suffer and keep turnning him Q2H when times comes but to recieve his ultimate end STAT

[mayoo]

you got some point about the "eldest thing".. maybe its because of the responsibility expected of them. but its not universal as we know by now... most of us wants to be nurses, irregardless of our position in the family because we have great dreams.. initially, we take off with that dream.. but i know most of us, find the heart to be what we nurses really are.. compassionate human beings.. ready to give a hand to any body who needs us, not necessarily those physically incapacitated.. we become nurses because we chose to put an exclamation point to our existence.. that somehow in one way or the other, we existed with good sense..