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Unless you are some all loving angel with no ego or judgement, I guarantee you will have a favourite child.
Granted, in some families the children can be all very similar and therefore hard to have a clear favourite.
I have a niece and a nephew. I love them both and care about them immensely. They are both good people with good morals and are not criminals (that I know of lol).
But if I was forced to answer the question - my niece is my favourite. She has a much stronger work ethic, she is not as "entitled" as her brother.
I know parents are suppose to love their kids "unconditionally". But I'm sure liking them is not mandatory lol.
I love all three of ours equally. We have 43 month old identical twin boys and a 14 month old daughter. There are some different challenges, but I don’t favor one over another because they’re a bit different. Ask me again when #4 arrives in late September or early October.
I can honestly say I don't have a favorite child. My kids are also 7 and 9...so that could change I guess? lol. I would think whoever keeps in touch with me the most might be my 'fav' but I'd love them both the same.
My relationships with my kids are too complicated for me to have a definitive favorite. When they were growing up, we'd go through phases where one of them was being super challenging to deal with and the other was pretty much fine and cooperative, but it was never long before they traded off those roles.
As young adults, I think that I'm closer to my younger son, but a lot of that is because he's needed a ton more help. He has had serious mental health and then addiction and relationship and life problems. He stresses me out, but we are close because I care enough to keep helping, though I have had to work on some boundaries and step it back financially. But when you are the one person that someone with schizo-type mental issues really trusts, frankly...in a way, it's a moral obligation to try and be there for them. If only to talk to when they are losing their grip on reality, when you are the one voice that can guide them back. At least, that's how I feel about it. When his delusions tell him that everyone is his enemy, he still trusts me. That means something to me, even when it's hard to be that person.
My older son...he's got some issues, too, but nowhere near as severe or taxing to help with. Of course I love him and I'm proud of him, but we are not as close because he does not need or necessarily want his parents to be extremely close. He's trying to make his own way and I am proud of him for that. We still talk, and our relationship feels fine, good.
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