The roles and responsibilities of Filipino children are shaped by birth order“ In families, children tend to take on standard roles, as if there were hats hanging in some secret place, visible only to their children. Each subsequent child chooses a hat and takes on that role: the good boy, the black ship, the clown, and so on. (Ellen Gallensky). Children tend to have these hats with them until they become adults. Those hats serve for who they are and for what they should do in the family, it's as if their roles hang on their shoulders as a result of stereotypes. Each person has their own roles and responsibilities that can be taken on naturally and through the way they were raised. The defined role is a set of related behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation. (Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia). These roles may present themselves as they are because it is an expected changing behavior and they may have a given individual social status due to his position or order in his family because others consider it a qualifying factor in some fields and aspects, such as applying for a job and getting married. It is believed that each child's role in his family and society is influenced by his birth order. It could be through how an individual is shaped or influenced by society's expectations based on their order in the family, in this case they can also be called stereotypes. These stereotypes can sometimes have positive and negative effects on children because if they are able to compromise with what they should be in the eyes of people and if not they could have psychological effects in their behavior and actions because they cannot be that which is expected.But what is the birth order? Birth order is... in the center of the paper......pment/sibling-problems/how-birth-order-shapes-personality/Scutti, Susan. (October 22, 2013). Firstborns do better at school: parents "play hard" with the older ones to set an example for younger siblings. In the medical newspaper. Retrieved December 2013 from http://www.medicaldaily.com/first-born-children-do-better-school-parents-play-tough-oldest-set-example-younger-siblings-260564The Birth Order Effect (2013) Nel angelfire.com website. Retrieved December 2013 from http://www.angelfire.com/planet/birthorder/page2.htmlVoo, Josephine. (August 2006). Birth order Personality. In Parents magazine. Retrieved December 2013 from http://www.parents.com/baby/development/social/birth-order-and-personality/Walcutt, Diana. (2009). Birth order and personality. Psychological center. Retrieved December 2013 from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/07/22/birth-order-and-personality/