I sometimes feel, as an only child, that I miss out on what it's like to bully my younger siblings. Can you relate to this?
Nah I'm a younger sibling myself. Being an only child must be weird, since I don't know what its like to not have siblings.
There are birth order dynamics to childhood development that I sort of just don't qualify for either.
I get what you're saying. What's weird to think about is that you can be born an only child but they can adopt and therefore you aren't anymore.
True. I wonder if the effect is totally the same though when your parents adopt vs. if they have a kid naturally.
It's probably slightly different, since birthing a biological child is probably a lot different to adopting one.
For parents who can't conceive, I imagine that at least the emotions are extremely similar.
That's true. On a different note, only children were relatively uncommon throughout history.
I believe it. Had to have 19 kids because 16 of them would die before age 8. Yikes.
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
relief, but I sometimes catch myself waiting for things to get hard again when she has a relapse. I always find her recurrences a bit stressful and not just form a technical view (i.e. wanting to make her condition looks authentic). I know it's acting, and it's not real, but when Sarah's having a recurrence I do feel a bit of what it must be like when something like MS changes you – and changes the way people relate to you." In November 2010 Sarah leaves Ferndale,