Parents are more likely to help their eldest children in buying their first home than they are to assist their younger sons or daughters in this process, according to a new survey. Whereas over one in six first-borns get help from their mums and dads in raising deposits for their first home, Abbey's poll found that only one in eight second-born children and just one in 11 third-born kids received this same financial aid. Moreover, while parents on average spend 52.5 hours in total helping their eldest children to choose and then to move into a new property, this falls to 34 hours for their second-born children and to only 27 hours for their third-born.