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What's Better: One Child or Siblings? - ABC News - 0 views

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  • Sibling Advantages
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GROWING UP WITHOUT SIBLINGS AND ADULT SOCIABILITY BEHAVIORS - 0 views

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  • Recent data indicate that only 3 percent of American adults think the ideal number of children for a family to have is one
  • Siblings
  • Many view having another child, so that their son or daughter will have a sibling, as an important consideration for childbearing
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  • but there is also an apparent concern that a lack of siblings will be detrimental during childhood and throughout the life course
  • resource dilution model”
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The adolescent only child | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • Usually the child feels a comparable obligation to do right by the parents. This is not a laid back family because everyone is trying extremely hard to do their best by each other.
  • They expect the child to turn out well. As one parent once memorably told me: "No one who has an only child is content to have an average child, or at least to believe they do." In response, only children tend to want to perform well for their parents.
  • From what I have seen, only children tend to be powerfully parented. Well attached to parents and well nurtured by them, the only child receives a lot of parental attention, affection, acceptance, and approval
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  • Toni Falbo, at the University of Texas, reports about only children - they tend to develop high self-esteem. Well thought of by parents, they think well of themselves.
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  • el socially self-conscious, and value privacy, from growing up being the sole focus of unrelenting parental scrutiny;To be sensitive to disapproval and be self-critical when evelvated standards of conduct and performance are not met;To like social attention from being the center of family attention at home;To be emotionally sensitive from being used to the emotionally sensitive and sensitized relationship with parents;To prefer order and constancy to surprise and change from parents who often organize family life based on planning and predictability;To prefer the company of a "family" of a few close friends to being a social butterfly, from being used to the close and satisfying companionship of parents;To be strong-willed (stubborn and persistent) from being given to and being given into from parents who want to support and empower the child when they responsibly can;
  • To be deeply knowing of parents from the family intimacy they have shared, their good sides and not so goodl;To feel strongly attached to parents, often carrying a sense of obligation and responsibility for their care;To be uncomfortable with conflict from not having the rough and tumble, push and shove competition with siblings, or much serious disharmony with parents;To have a strong sense of what is "right" and "wrong" from closely identifying with parental standards and values;To be ambitious to achieve from wanting to live up to parental expectations and to invest in themselves to do well for themselves;To be as seriousy responsible and conscientious and careful as the parents who, in their parenting, have been that way with the child;To be possessive of significant belongings (from not having to share) but also possessive of sufficient space and time alone for themselves;To have a low susceptibility to peer pressure from being highly commited to self-interest;To have and pursue a strong sense of personal agenda for themselves and be independent in that way;To be obedient to social authority from the mattering of parental approval and from learning early ho
  • w to get on well with adults;To be dependent on parents for their emotional support, and also being dependable for parents to rely on;To be prone to stress from self-imposed pressure for right conduct, responsible behavior, and high accomplishment, not being relaxed and laid back on that account;To be high controlling from being anxious about making mistakes and not measuring up to high performance standards she or he has set.To be reluctant to share joint decision-making in relationships where the outcome could effect his or her well being;To know how to be content with his or her own company from spending a lot of time in the family alone.To be comfortable communicating with adults from learning how to socialize on adult terms with parents and parental friends.To have a sense of future from parental concerns for the future of their only child, a sense that keeps
  • growth directed through the immediate temptations and multi
  • ple distractions of adolescence.
  • Because adolescence involves separation from parents, opposition to parents, and differentiation from parents, these developmental changes can be quite painful for a highly attached only child to do. Also, with conditions of childhood so comfortable at home, the only child can be reluctant to alter them.
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Science Looks At The Sibling Effect : NPR - 0 views

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  • Absolutely, and one of the most profound effects siblings have on you is that area of conflict resolution skills, that area of relationship formation and maintenance.
  • Absolutely, and one of the points I make, one of the most salient points I make, is that siblings are the longest relationships we'll ever have in our lives. Our parents leave us too soon, our spouses and our kids come along too late. As baby boomers age, a lot of us are getting into our 80s and our 90s and beyond, and by definition one spouse is going to outlive another.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Being an Only Child - 0 views

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  • "Little Emperor Syndrome"
  • feeling of loneliness
  • face an immense pressure put on you by your parents
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Sibling rivalry 'good for children' | Society | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • sibling rivalry can boost mental and emotional development, increase maturity and enhance social skills.
  • "The more combative siblings are, and the more they argue and the older child puts the younger one down, the more they are learning complex lessons about communication and the subtleties of language," said Dr Claire Hughes
  • "The more the children upset each other, the more they learn about regulating their emotions and how they can affect the emotions of others,"
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  • "The more they point-score, the more it can motivate them to achieve.
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