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by aidenn0 2600 days ago
Also, thanks to combinatorics, the number of sibling fights that can happen increases superlinearly:

With a simplifying assumption of only pairs of siblings getting into fights, its C(n,2) which is 0,1,3,6,10,15 for 1-6 kids. I have a friend with 6 kids and can confirm that there are roughly 15x as many fights between the siblings as friends with 2 kids. Age differences do matter though (if your kids are much more than about 10 years apart, they tend to clash a bit less because they are less in competition with each other).