friends as family

Dialogue with a parent of an only child

I am a mother raising an only child who is about to turn three. While looking up some info on the subject I came across your website. With all due respect to you, what I read was incredibly upsetting!!! Where was the positive side of the subject? Just because you have siblings DOES NOT mean life is a party! I am the youngest of four, and my husband is the youngest of three, and we are on our own. Yes, we know we have someone in the world if there was an emergency but other than that, there is warm and fussy feeling. I think for many people in today’s world, their friends become their family. Martie Bernice Responds I am sorry you found the website so upsetting, I assume from your position as a parent of an only child. However the website is intended for adult only children, to [...]

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