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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was raised an only child in a completely normal, loving house. Never wanted a sibling. My parents supported me without spoiling me. I had a great childhood and continue to have a good relationship with my parents now that I am an adult.

The number of siblings DO NOT matter. I have friends with siblings who hate each other. Another had 3 siblings and had an abusive father.  No family is perfect.

People on this board need to get over the only child shaming. It's insulting and hurtful.

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❤️ Thanks for posting. People are unbelievably cruel about only children.[/quote]

+1 though I wouldn't go so far as "cruel." Maybe more "unimaginative and self-focused" because they cannot picture a family where everyone is fine with an only child, including the child herself. 
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I said cruel, because it is downright cruel to tell the many people didn’t get to choose their family size that their family is and always will be inferior. I have an only not by choice.

I do think the unhappy onlieis out there idealize sibling relationships to an incredible degree. For every pair of close  siblings, there’s a pair that do nothing but torment each other.  And if they have a poor relationship with their  parents, then they should know that abusive households do not generally foster closest sibling relationships.  There’s one woman here who posts all the time, or used to, about how cold and distant and lonely her childhood was. If she had had a sibling, the chances are that they would not have been close. Cold abusive families just don’t set kids up for good bonds.[/quote]

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