I was pretty much raised as an only child - how about you?
i have 1 sister. Throughout history, only children were relatively uncommon, so people would more commonly have more than 1 child
Well my parents had two children, but then they got divorced and I lived with my dad and my sister with my mom.
oh that must have been very hard, but there is a lot to benefit from being a single child im guessing,
Yes, to some extent - but now as adults, my sister and I really aren't that close so there are also bad things as well.  We decided to have more than one child so they wouldn't be alone.
20th century, birth rates and average family sizes fell sharply, for a number of reasons including increasing costs of raising children and more women having their first child later in life. The proportion of families in the U.S. with only children increased during the Great Depression but fell during the Post–World War II baby boom. After the Korean War ended in 1953, the South Korean government suggested citizens each have one or two children to boost economic prosperity, which resulted in significantly lowered birth rates and a larger number of only children
came to-day to ask me to give her a little milk for her only child, who was dying for the want of proper nourishment. It went to my heart to refuse her; but at this time I had only just enough for my own children, and baby could not have lived without it. I think she understood that I would have given her some if I could. (14 August)brThe children still kept pretty well, though baby grew thinner every day; nothing I gave him seemed to nourish him.