While reading my classmates' essays, along with my own, I noticed that a lot of us had the same sibling relationships with our siblings. Most of us who have siblings notice that many families have a stereotypical younger daughter who is a tattle-tale (sp?) who very seldom gets in trouble with the parental units, and has to do a lot less work than the other siblings. There is also a stereotypical son who is a "mama's boy" and everything is handed to him on a silver platter. Then we see the stereotypical older child who is supposed to be more responsible than the other children, who is supposed to look after them, and who is supposed to be able to do more chores around the house. For those of us who aren't/weren't the spoiled baby, we tend to have a somewhat bitter attitude towards the 'little brat.'

My reason for stating this is that, even though we know many families possess such children who fit these descriptions, we very seldon see them, full force, on television. The Adams Family is the only sitcom I can recall where the children were at each other's necks... literally. The funny thing is that I am not the only person in our class who can compare his family to the Adams' family.