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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.[/quote]

THANK YOU for sticking to your guns. I have an only, and some people say awful things. In front of my kid, too.[/quote]

It is cruel, whether or not it is "by choice".  I wanted a second, DH did not, so no second child.  I am close with my brother, and he and his sister have a very very strained relationship -- only exists because of his parents forcing the issue.

My only is very independent as well -- she has taken the bus by herself a few times and figured out how to get around without help, whereas friends of hers have not been allowed to do so.  She also makes friends easily in new situations since she has no hangups about how she is perceived (think siblings who pick on each other.) and is incredibly generous with her money and time.[/quote]

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