Wow, what a long dialog this could start. I'm an only child, and only one of my two kids is a parent of one child. It's not clear if they'll have another, since parenting impacts their careers and vice versa. We both grew up with several siblings or cousins who still enrich and/or impact our lives. So we wonder what our grandson's life will be like if he has no siblings and (at this point) only two cousins.
Wow, what a long dialog this could start. I'm an only child, and only one of my two kids is a parent of one child. It's not clear if they'll have another, since parenting impacts their careers and vice versa. We both grew up with several siblings or cousins who still enrich and/or impact our lives. So we wonder what our grandson's life will be like if he has no siblings and (at this point) only two cousins.
It's an interesting modern-day phenomenon. And we won't really know how it will impact the childless adult children as they grow older.