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[quote=Anonymous]Benefits are that they have another person who is family, who grew up with them - to play with as a child and for commiserating and dealing with aging parents as an adult.

Also being the only center of two adults world and attention and money isn't actually a great thing. Life is about learning to get along with others, to share, to not be #1 all the time.

There is no guarantee either way. Not everyone is close to their siblings as adults, not all only children benefit from being only children. It is a crap shoot either way. However the majority of siblings do tend to benefit from having a sibling. One of my friends growing up was an only child. She hated it with a passion and ended up marrying someone with 6 siblings so that her kids could have a cousin, large family experience. He wasn't a great match for her and they later divorced but she didn't want her own kids to have the experience she had (her parents were both only children as well so their entire family was the 3 of them). I can't imagine life without my sister. However if my only sibling had been my older brother, it wouldn't have benefited me much as we never got along, right from being young children and rarely speak as adults. However our kids still love each other as cousins. [/quote]

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