It’s time to shift away from the perspective of only children as a single group sharing particular traits, says this UCL professor.
LONDON: Being an only child is a “disease in itself”, according to 19th century psychologist Stanley G Hall. Even though Hall’s views and scholarly research methods have been questioned and criticised, only children’s reputation as spoiled, overprotected and lonely has persisted ever since., you may have had worries about how growing up without siblings may affect your child’s social skills.
We found that only children’s cognitive development by age 11 is more affected by things like their parents’ relationship and their family’s socioeconomic status than whether they have brothers and sisters. What financial and emotional resources there are in the household overall might matter more in determining children’s life outcomes than how many children they need to share these resources with.
To measure children’s development we looked at results from cognitive tests the children in the study took at age ten or 11. These tests assessed their verbal skills. The changing composition of single-child families helps to explain why, compared to the past, only children nowadays show a smaller advantage compared to children growing up with siblings.CHANGING THE NARRATIVE
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