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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an only child and read the One and Only book because someone recommended it here at some point and I didn’t like it. It’s basically the author justifying why she has just one child. If you are a parent and looking for reassurance to just have one child, read that book. I find that she generalizes way too much. I will confess that I hate being an only child and wish I have a sibling. I’m not trying to start a debate here but that was my experience. It is only now that I have two kids of my own that I realized how lonely I was. YMMV.[/quote]

It's quite a different read, I think, if the reader is a parent of an only child than it would be for an adult only child who has only negative memories of growing up without siblings. I'm not saying you should have liked the book or it should have magically changed your perception of how you grew up--not at all. Just that it's not a book that is going to [i]alter[/i] anything for an adult only child, but it can give a parent of an only child who's still growing up a perspective that is a refreshing change from the attitudes of those who push parents to "have a sibling for your poor lonely only" etc. [/quote]

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