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.
True, as birth rates dropped hard back in the middle of the 20th century when children dying wasn't as big of an issue.