I am an only child, I have no siblings, sometimes I wish I had a brother or sister to play with growing up
Aww, was that hard for you at first?
It was easy at first, it got harder when I was older and it was pretty uncommon to be an only child in my school
How did others treat you?
Well I had one friend who was an only child as well, but then parents remarried and she ended up having half-siblings, step siblings...so she wasn't really an only child anymore. I felt left out
I grew up with a sister who is 19 years older. I know the feeling
Well only child is usually only applied to people who have never had siblings but I can understand that feeling, its not like your sister would be able to play with you much when you were 6
Not at all. We are close now but it was weird
to the country.
From 1979 to 2015, the one-child policy in the People's Republic of China restricted most parents to having only one child, although it was subject to local relaxations and individual circumstances (for instance when twins were conceived).
Families may have an only child for a variety of reasons, including: personal preference, family planning, financial and emotional or physical health issues, desire to travel, stress in the family, educational advantages, late marriage, stability, focus, time constraints
I never was an ingenue; I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough for the roles that other young women were being cast in. The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you. And