Is only-child syndrome a thing, or is your one-child policy good for your little one? | Parent24
In 1896, the American psychologist Granville Stanley Hall famously said:"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
It suggests that many women choose not to have children at all and that a family size of between one and two children per family is 'the norm'. One or two highly prized children, who received all the parental resources, began to replace a brood. Further, fewer of us than ever before are in heterosexual marriage relationships when we start having children.
Who for 30 years has been analysing psychological studies of single children and who has found the personalities of single children were indistinguishable from their peers with brothers and sisters. Freud, the eldest child, disagreed deeply with Adler who said middle children were more well-adjusted than the eldest children, who struggled for success and superiority.
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